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V. The diffusion of section names: an overview

The elements outlined throughout the previous three chapters are now sufiiciently developed
to allow a summary of the essential points on two maps. Map 12 shows the diffusion of
section names themselves, that is, without substitution and independent of their combinations,
excluding linguistic variations, which have been eliminated while defining the categories of
sections. Map 13, complementary to Map 12, presents the substitutions between categories of
sections. Properly speaking, this map cannot be considered to represent a diffusional pattern,
but displays a set of substitution rules for section names or categories from one regional
subset to another. It summarises what McConvell called pragmatic vxiui ' rules between
sections.

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Piljeii and Karimarra

Fanaka

Panaka and Kzirmrm

Wanglrz

Tjarurvu, Yipanka and Karimarra

Tjamrru and Ylparrka

Burgulu and Panaka
Pllbara: ori ' or place of entry of
Karimarra, aka, Paljeri and Purungu
Possible orig’: of Mlarigka '
Possibteorigiorpl eofentryof
Tjavurru, Yiparrlta arid: Burgulu
Second possible clign of Burgulu

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Map 12: Routes of diffusion of sections without substitution into the Western Desert

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1 . Pal jeri — Mflangka
2. Milanglu — Pal jeri
3. Paljeri —> Tjarurru
4. Paljeri -3 Birgulu
5. Panaka — > Bwgrlu
6. Bargulu Pamka —> Yiparrka
7. Burgulu — > Panaka



Map 13: Rules of substitution pragmatic equivalences of sections in the Western
Desert

Christensen proposed rules of substitution for sections in an appendix to his doctoral
thesis 198 1 1368, annex 12. Some of the routes described here do not, however, correspond
with what has been elaborated in his important study. The reason might be that Christensen
describes substitutions from group to group, or from place to place, while I have been trying