Introduction: Etymology beyond word histories

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contact details and affiliations of contributors v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Table of contents xi
5. Introduction: Etymology beyond word histories 1
6. Towards a framework of contact etymology 9
7. Obscure vs. transparent cognates in linguistic reconstruction 33
8. The etymology of a paradigm: the Pama-Nyungan 3SgF reconsidered 53
9. Constructional etymology: The sources of relative clauses 83
10. Concerning myself 121
11. Granny got cross: semantic change of kami ‘mother’s mother’ to ‘father’s mother’ in Pama-Nyungan 147
12. Shadows of bygone lives: The histories of spiritual words in northern Vanuatu 185
13. Markers of the spirit world in Oceanic languages 245
14. Etymology of Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay bird names 251
15. The smuggled budgie: case study of an Australian loanblend 293
16. Archaisms in placenames in Arabana- Wangkangurru country 313
17. Subject index 323