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- Title
Is Puyuma a Primary Branch of Austronesian?
- Authors
Sagart, Laurent
- Abstract
Malcom Ross's new theory of early Austronesian phylogeny is examined. I describe evidence that *-en served to mark verbs in undergoer voice, patient subject, in a language ancestral to Puyuma, as well as evidence that *<in> occurs in some verbs in undergoer voice, patient subject perfective, in one sociolect of Nanwang Puyuma. This evidence falsifies the claim that Puyuma reflects an early Austronesian stage at which *-en and *<in> had not yet been reinterpreted from nominalizers into voice markers. It also falsifies the phylogeny that takes that putative innovation as its central event. A hypothetical scenario is offered to account for the replacement of the *-en, *-an, and *Si- (or *Sa-) series of voice markers by the series now found in Puyuma independent verbs.
- Subjects
AUSTRONESIAN languages; LANGUAGE &; culture; OCEANIC languages; PUYUMA (Taiwan people); PUYUMA language; ROSS, Malcom
- Publication
Oceanic Linguistics, 2010, Vol 49, Issue 1, p194
- ISSN
0029-8115
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ol.0.0070