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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Greater North Borneo hypothesis canonical | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austronesian subgrouping proposal
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linguistic hypothesis ⓘ |
| arguesThat | Greater North Borneo forms a primary branch within Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
comparative method
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shared innovations ⓘ |
| claims |
shared lexical innovations among member languages
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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
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shared irregular morphology ⓘ sound correspondences ⓘ |
| field |
Austronesian linguistics
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historical linguistics ⓘ |
| firstFormulatedIn | early 2010s ⓘ |
| focusesOn | Austronesian languages of Borneo and surrounding regions ⓘ |
| includes |
Kayanic languages
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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
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Brunei NERFINISHED ⓘ Sabah NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarawak NERFINISHED ⓘ parts of Sumatra and Malay Peninsula ⓘ parts of western Philippines ⓘ |
| influences |
classification of Bornean languages
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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
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under active scholarly debate ⓘ |
| subgroupOf | Malayo-Polynesian languages ⓘ |
| subgroupWithin | Austronesian language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedToExplain |
distribution of certain lexical isoglosses in western Island Southeast Asia
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shared structural features among Bornean and some mainland coastal languages ⓘ |
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