What is it about?
Describes extensive pre-contact lexical borrowing among Australian Aboriginal languages of the Arnhem Land region, focusing on pairs of languages that are only distantly related genetically.
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Why is it important?
Companion article to my book, Linguistic Diffusion in Arnhem Land (1976, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies), which covered grammatical (mostly morphological) diffusion.
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This page is a summary of: A Case of Intensive Lexical Diffusion: Arnhem Land, Australia, Language, June 1981, JSTOR,
DOI: 10.2307/413694.
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