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Article Dans Une Revue Oceanic Linguistics Année : 2010

Is Puyuma a primary branch of Austronesian ?

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Malcolm Ross's new theory of early Austronesian phylogeny is examined. The author describes evidence that *-en served to mark verbs in undergoer voice, patient subject in a language ancestral to Puyuma, as well as evidence that * marks 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 * had not yet been reinterpreted from nominalizers into voice markers. It also falsifies the phylogeny which 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.

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hal-00781049 , version 1 (25-01-2013)

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Laurent Sagart. Is Puyuma a primary branch of Austronesian ?. Oceanic Linguistics, 2010, 49 (1), pp.194-204. ⟨hal-00781049⟩
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