Entwined Histories: The Lexicons of Kawaimina and Maka Languages

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an y thanks to Owen Edwards for the detailed comments and extremely informative feedback he gave on an earlier version of this paper. We would also like to thank Alex Veloso, whose documentation and sketch of ?aueti made this paper possible. Jessé Fogaça was also extremely helpful in checking various ?akasae forms for us, while Thomas ?ariano Pinto and Iliwatu Danabere provided information on ?akalero forms. Schapper would also like to thank Erik Zobel for discussion of various topics. All errors are our own. Schapper’s research was funded by the ?etherlands Organisation for Scientific Research veni project “The evolution of the lexicon. Explorations in lexical sta- Many thanks to Owen Edwards for the detailed comments and extremely informative feedback he gave on an earlier version of this paper. We would also like to thank Alex Veloso, whose documentation and sketch of Naueti made this paper possible. Jessé Fogaça was also extremely helpful in checking various Makasae forms for us, while Thomas Mariano Pinto and Iliwatu Danabere provided information on Makalero forms. Schapper would also like to thank Erik Zobel for discussion of various topics. All errors are our own. Schapper's research was funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research veni project "The evolution of the lexicon. Explorations in lexical sta-bility, semantic shift and borrowing in a Papuan language family", the Volkswagen Stiftung DoBeS project "Aru languages documentation", and the European Research Council "outofpapua" project (Grant Agreement No. 848532).