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Studies
in Language Change
is the imprint of the Centre
for Research in Language Change of the Australian National
University. The series is published jointly with the Centre
by Pacific Linguistics. The following titles have now been
published:
 A study of valency-changing devices
in Proto Oceanic
Bethwyn Evans
PL 539
Many Oceanic Austronesian languages have
several valency-changing devices. This work is an historical
study of three valency-increasing and two valency-decreasing
morphemes, presenting a detailed reconstruction of their forms
and functions in the ancestor language, Proto Oceanic. The
reconstructions of valency-changing devices is presented within
of an analysis of morphosyntactic classes of verbs, both in
the modern languages and in Proto Oceanic.
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 A Handbook of Comparative Bahnaric,
volume 1: West Bahnaric
Paul Sidwell and Pascale Jacq.
PL
551
This book is the first in a series of monographs
that present a reconstruction of the phonology and lexicon
of each sub-group of the Bahnaric family, and a consolidated
reconstruction of Proto Bahnaric. The reconstruction offered
here includes 1094 sets of lexical comparisons, with reconstructed
proto-forms and extensive etymological commentary.
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 The Non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern
Australia:
Comparative studies of the continent's most linguistically
complex region
Edited by Nicholas Evans
PL
552
A landmark publication in Australian linguistics,
this volume illustrates that - despite recent claims by some
authors - the comparative method can be successfully applied
to Australian languages. It also furnishes a number of detailed
and intricate studies of morphological reconstruction applied
to complex paradigms.
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