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Malayo-Polynesian homeland was in Yunnan (southern China). He does not specifically address the question of the Malay(ic) homeland. 2. Borneo as the Malay homeland: theoretical justification One of the assumptions behind the Borneo hypothesis is Sapir's model (1968) claiming that in the quest for a linguistic homeland, the area with the larg
evidence in support of the Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian hypothe-sis, (2) to argue for the reality of a Central Malayo-Polynesian subgroup, which includes certain of the previously unclassified languages of the Bomberai Peninsula, and (3) to examine the internal subgrouping of the CMP languages.
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This volume comes at a vibrant time in the eld of. fi. theoretical Polynesian, and it represents the work of both seasoned and new scholars in the area. In Section 1.5, we overview the chapters included in this volume, and show how each chapter interacts with the issues discussed in Sections 1.3 and 1.4.
Proto-Malayic: The reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology
- Alexander Adelaar
The new linguistic model ultimately demonstrates that the settlement of east Polynesia and the development of the Eastern Polynesian languages occurred in one major period of dispersal, with subsequent spheres of contact among central Polynesian com- munities, producing the pattern of cultural and linguistic traits we see today. 1. INTRODUCTION ...
Polynesian linguistics continues to grow and to impact our understanding of phonology and syntax, and, more recently, of prosody and semantics as well. This volume comes at a vibrant time in the field of theoretical Polynesian, and it represents the work of both seasoned and new scholars in the area.
Malay is one of the major languages in the world, but there has been relatively little detailed research on its phonetics. This Element provides an overview of existing descriptions of the pronunciation of Standard Malay before briefly considering the pronunciation of some dialects of Malay. It then introduces materials that may be used for ...
