Explaining the aberrant Austronesian languages of southeast Melanesia: 150 years of debate

Journal of the Polynesian Society

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 215-258

  Pawley, Andrew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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