St George linkage subgroup
E25749
The St George linkage subgroup is a proposed lower-level grouping within the Austronesian language family, comprising closely related languages that likely evolved through a network of dialect continua rather than a single, neat branching split.
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian subgroup
→
proposed language subgroup → |
| belongsTo |
Oceanic languages
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| contrastsWith |
strictly branching family-tree subgrouping
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| evolvesVia |
dialect continua
→
linkage processes → |
| hasCharacteristic |
closely related languages
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dialect continuum → linkage → network-like evolution → non-tree-like diversification → |
| hasScope |
closely related Austronesian languages
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| hasStatus |
not universally accepted
→
proposed → |
| hasType |
lower-level subgroup within Austronesian
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| isCharacterizedBy |
overlapping isoglosses
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shared grammatical innovations → shared lexical innovations → shared phonological innovations → |
| isDefinedBy |
comparative-historical linguistic evidence
→
shared innovations among member languages → |
| isLocatedIn |
Oceania
→
Pacific region → |
| partOf |
Austronesian language family
→
|
| subgroupOf |
Austronesian language family
→
|
Referenced by (1)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Austronesian languages
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hasSubfamily |