Source: Edwards (2021a)
Language:
Proto-Rote-Meto
Short Reference:
Edwards (2021a)
Full Reference:
Edwards, Owen. 2021. Rote-Meto Comparative Dictionary. Canberra: ANU Press.
# Entries:
1092
Note:
Edited by Antoinette Schapper. What is treated here as Proto-Rote-Meto reconstructions folds together several reconstructive levels that are distinct in Edwards (2021) for the purposes of streamlining and simplifying. Proto-Rote-Meto reconstructions here include Edwards' (2021) PRM, CERM, Rote, CER, nRM. Edwards (2021:70-71) writes himself that a PRM is the most likely explanation for many of the cognate sets in these other groupings: "When a reconstruction is made on the basis of internal Rote-Meto evidence and is assigned to Rote, Nuclear Rote-Meto or Central East Rote-Meto, the [following] explanation is most likely: the terms are probably inherited from PRM, but cognates are not known in the languages that do not belong to these groups. Innovation is unlikely as none of these groups are descended from unitary proto-languages , though we cannot rule out innovation in one branch with borrowing into the other branch ...". The original reconstructive level of Edwards (2021) is given in a note to the individual entries.