Greater North Borneo hypothesis

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The Greater North Borneo hypothesis is a linguistic proposal that groups several Austronesian languages of Borneo and surrounding regions into a single higher-order subgroup based on shared innovations and historical relationships.

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instanceOf Austronesian subgrouping proposal
linguistic hypothesis
arguesThat Greater North Borneo forms a primary branch within Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
basedOn comparative method
shared innovations
claims shared lexical innovations among member languages
shared morphological innovations among member languages
shared phonological innovations among member languages
concerns genetic relationships among Austronesian languages
contrastsWith traditional Austronesian subgrouping models
developedBy Alexander D. Smith NERFINISHED
evidenceType shared basic vocabulary innovations
shared irregular morphology
sound correspondences
field Austronesian linguistics
historical linguistics
firstFormulatedIn early 2010s
focusesOn Austronesian languages of Borneo and surrounding regions
includes Kayanic languages
Land Dayak languages
Malayic languages NERFINISHED
Moken language NERFINISHED
Moklen language NERFINISHED
North Sarawak languages NERFINISHED
Rejang language NERFINISHED
Sabahan languages
Sundic languages in some formulations
includesLanguagesFrom Borneo NERFINISHED
Brunei NERFINISHED
Sabah NERFINISHED
Sarawak NERFINISHED
parts of Sumatra and Malay Peninsula
parts of western Philippines
influences classification of Bornean languages
classification of Malayic languages
methodology reconstruction of proto-Greater North Borneo
notablePublication Smith 2017 dissertation on the languages of Borneo
proponent Alexander D. Smith NERFINISHED
proposes Greater North Borneo as a higher-order subgroup of Austronesian NERFINISHED
relatedConcept Proto-Greater North Borneo NERFINISHED
relatedTo Out-of-Taiwan model of Austronesian dispersal NERFINISHED
status controversial
under active scholarly debate
subgroupOf Malayo-Polynesian languages
subgroupWithin Austronesian language family NERFINISHED
usedToExplain distribution of certain lexical isoglosses in western Island Southeast Asia
shared structural features among Bornean and some mainland coastal languages

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Alexander D. Smith hasPublishedOn Greater North Borneo hypothesis