Social ecology and language history in the northern vanuatu linkage:a tale of divergence and convergence

Journal of Historical Linguistics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 175-246

  François, Alexandre ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Areal diffusion; Historical dialectology; Language change; Language contact; Lexical replacement; Linguistic diversification; Melanesia; Structural borrowing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989382354     PISSN: 22102116     EISSN: 22102124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jhl.1.2.03fra     Document Type: Article

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