The Australian National University

The CRLC publishes the monograph series Studies in Language Change jointly with Pacific Linguistics. Information on the series is available at http://pacling.com/CRLC.html. The SLC series aims to publish high-quality works on aspects of historical linguistics or related subjects, especially, but not exclusively, works on languages of Australia and the Indo-Pacific region.

Current Publications

The series is growing. Current publications are:

 

A study of valency-changing devices in Proto Oceanic

Bethwyn Evans

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.

 

A Handbook of Comparative Bahnaric, volume 1: West Bahnaric

Paul Sidwell and Pascale Jacq.

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.

 

The Non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia:
Comparative studies of the continent's most linguistically complex region

Edited by Nicholas Evans.

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.

Forthcoming Publications

The following titles are forthcoming in this series:

Selected papers from the Workshop Grammatical Change: Theory and Description, held at the 2006 Australian Linguistic Society conference, are currently being edited for publication in this series.

Submission Guidelines

Potential contributors should contact the SLC editorial board, enquiring whether their manuscript would be suitable for publication in the SLC series. Contributions are not restricted to members of the CRLC, but are encouraged from anyone working in the area of historical linguistics.

Submissions should be in Pacific Linguistics style. Potential contributors should consult the Guide for Pacific Linguistics authors at http://www.pacling.com/for_authors/PL_guide_for_authors.pdf.

Editorial Board

Cynthia Allen
Harold Koch
Malcolm Ross

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