Editor: Bethwyn Evans Paperback: ISBN: 9780858836 Pages: 513
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This volume honouring Malcolm Ross brings together essays in
historical linguistics by 23 scholars, many on Ross's interests
in Austronesian and Papuan languages, and others on methodology.
PART I (on language relationships) includes: (1) In 'Remapping
the Austronesian expansion' Roger Blench examines the geographic
range of Austronesian influence. (2) 'Robert Blust shows 'The
historical value of single words' in providing key information
about Austronesian language histories. (3) Bethwyn Evans begins
to reconstruct the protolanguage of the (Papuan) South
Bougainville family in 'Beyond pronouns: further evidence for
South Bougainville '. (4) Alexandre François analyses the
history of a small group of Oceanic Austronesian languages in
'The languages of Vanikoro: three lexicons and one grammar'. (5)
In 'Expanding character sets for phylogeny: a Slavic test case'
Johanna Nichols shows how bo