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- Title
Is Puyuma a Primary Branch of Austronesian? A Reply to Sagart.
- Authors
Teng, Stacy F.; Ross, Malcolm
- Abstract
Ross (2009) proposes the Nuclear Austronesian hypothesis, according to which the Formosan languages Puyuma, Rukai, and Tsou are each probably a primary branch of Austronesian and all Austronesian languages other than these three belong to a single, Nuclear Austronesian, branch defined by the nominalization-to-verb innovation originally proposed by Starosta, Pawley, and Reid (1981, 1982) for Proto-Austronesian itself. Sagart (2010) argues that there is evidence that Puyuma has also undergone the nominalization-to-verb innovation and is accordingly not a primary branch of Austronesian. In this short paper we show that Sagart's evidence is based on misanalyses of Puyuma data and that these data do not reflect the nominalization-to-verb innovation. Sagart's argument against the Nuclear Austronesian hypothesis does not stand up to closer scrutiny.
- Subjects
AUSTRONESIAN languages; PUYUMA language; RUKAI (Taiwan people); TSOU language; TAIWAN languages; PUYUMA (Taiwan people); RUKAI languages; TSOU (Taiwan people)
- Publication
Oceanic Linguistics, 2010, Vol 49, Issue 2, p543
- ISSN
0029-8115
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ol.0.0070