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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>I think we need to consider the
likelihood that from a sociolinguistic perspective, the problem</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> John Lynch is bringing to our
attention <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>is a larger one than
terminology of any sort may be able to handle, i.e., we need to keep in mind,
too, how problematic is the root concept of something being
“ancestral” to something else when that “something” we
are talking about is language.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Or so Terry Hunt, Joel Bradshaw,
and I have argued in a recent issue of Pacific Studies:<span
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Terrell, J. E<span class=GramE>. ,</span>
Hunt, T. L., J. Bradshaw (2002). <span class=GramE>“<span
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>On the Location of the Proto-Oceanic
Homeland."</span></span></span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'> <br>
Pacific Studies 25(3):57-93<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>John<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
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navy;mso-no-proof:yes'>, </span></font><st1:State><font color=navy><span
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