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Patrick McConvell

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Publications

23

Citations

2.5K

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Active since

1981

Affiliations

Australian National University(Current)

Yale University

The University of Texas at Austin

University of Arizona

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Patrick McConvell is an author at Australian National University specializing in language studies, linguistics, and anthropology.

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LanguageLinguisticsAnthropologyMultilingualismSociolinguisticsHistorical LinguisticsEducationSocial AnthropologyCultural AnthropologySyntax

Publications per year

1981–2015

23

Publications

23

Gurindji Kriol: A Mixed Language Emerges from Code-switching

Patrick McConvell, Felicity Meakins · Australian Journal of Linguistics · 2005 · 314 citations

Language Contact, Engineering, Multilingualism +26

THE ORIGIN OF SUBSECTIONS IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA

Patrick McConvell · Oceania · 1985 · 277 citations

Historical Geography, Anthropology, Continental Margin +1

Does Lateral Transmission Obscure Inheritance in Hunter-Gatherer Languages?

Claire Bowern, Patience Epps, Russell D. Gray et al. · PLoS ONE · 2011 · 244 citations · Full text

Endangered Languages, Language Ecology, Hunter-gatherer Languages +15

Wanderwörter in languages of the Americas and Australia

Hannah J. Haynie, Claire Bowern, Patience Epps et al. · Ampersand · 2014 · 242 citations · Full text

Backtracking to Babel: the chronology of Pama‐Nyungan expansion in Australia

Patrick McConvell · Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania · 1996 · 218 citations

Historical Geography, Colonialism, Ethnohistory +17

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