Table of Contents

1. Contributors' addresses; 2. Introduction (by Bowern, Claire); 3. Part I. Genetic relatedness; 4. 1. Western Torres Strait language classification and development (by Alpher, Barry); 5. 2. The classification of Pinikura, Western Australia (by Austin, Peter); 6. 3. Bound pronominals in the West Papuan languages (by Donohue, Mark); 7. 4. Alawa and its neighbours: Enigma variations 1 and 2 (by Sharpe, Margaret); 8. 5. Reconstructing pre-Warumungu pronominals (by Simpson, Jane); 9. Part II. Reconstruction; 10. 6. Splitting vs. lumping in morphological analysis: Evidence from Greek (by Andrews, Avery D.); 11. 7. Pronominal accretions in Pama-Nyungan (by Black, Paul); 12. 8. Associated eating and movement: further examination of Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay verb suffixes (by Giacon, John); 13. 9. The origin of conjugation markers in Australian languages (by Harvey, Mark); 14. 10. Some remarks on negatives in Southeastern Australia (by Hercus, Luise); 15. 11. *gu es-, *(z)g u es-, *(s)g u esh2-? The PIE root for 'extinguish/go out' (by Jasanoff, Jay H.); 16. 12. The language of Central Australian Aboriginal songs (by Koch, Grace); 17. 13. The origin of noun classes in Worrorran languages (by McGregor, William B.); 18. 14. Hittite duwan (para) (by Melchert, H. Craig); 19. 15. Morphological reconstruction and Australian languages (by Miceli, Luisa); 20. 16. Warlpiri verb roots in comparative perspective (by Nash, David); 21. 17. Oujiang Wu tones and acoustic reconstruction (by Rose, Phil); 22. 18. Issues in the morphological reconstruction of Proto-Mon-Khmer (by Sidwell, Paul J.); 23. Part III. Processes of change; 24. 19. Case selection Old and New Basque (by Donohue, Cathryn); 25. 20. Third person plural as a morphological zero: Object marking in Marovo (by Evans, Bethwyn); 26. 21. The morphological development of the perfect in Jersey Norman French (by Liddicoat, Anthony J.); 27. 22. Grand-daddy morphs: The importance of suffixes in reconstructing Pama-Nyungan kinship (by McConvell, Patrick); 28. 23. Morphology of the eggs, and what it can tell us about Romanian nominal inflection (by Schulte, Kim); 29. 24. The refunctionalisation of first person plural inflection in Tiwi (by Smith, John Charles); 30. 25. A chain vowel raising in the early history of Chinese (by Zhu, Xiaonong); 31. Index of languages; 32. Index of subjects

Reviews

Comparative studies of Australian languages have recurrently suffered either from a lack of methodological rigour, or from the belief that the comparative method simply does not apply on this continent. Over three decades Harold Koch's patient and painstaking work, by bringing an Indo-Europeanist training to bear on what appear to be intractable problems, is a welcome corrective to these trends. The papers in this volume pay a suitable tribute to his work, ranging over a number of philological problems in Australian languages with a leavening of other reconstructive work on Hittite, Papuan, Mon-Khmer, Basque and Sino-Tibetan. There is a particular emphasis on morphological reconstruction, which is at the same time a still-underdeveloped aspect of the comparative method and the likely key to many problems in comparative Australian linguistics.
*Nick Evans, Professor of Linguistics, Australian National University*