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conjugation markers are more or less frozen morphemes in verbal inflection, not unlike vocalic theme markers in Spanish (-a-, -e-, -i-). Dixon's reconstructions of Proto-PN conjugation markers find cognate matches in non-PN languages of eastern Arnhem Land.
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Suggests that Proto-PN and (the relevant part of) Proto-nonPN were not as far apart as sometimes thought.
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This page is a summary of: Verbal inflection and macro-subgroupings of Australian languages: The search for conjugation markers in non-Pama-Nyungan, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/9783110886092.403.
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