• DOI:10.2307/3623195
Corpus ID: 147155189

CENTRAL AND CENTRAL- EASTERN MALAYO-POLYNESIAN

@article{Blust1993CENTRALAC,
  title={CENTRAL AND CENTRAL- EASTERN MALAYO-POLYNESIAN},
  author={R. Blust},
  journal={Oceanic Linguistics},
  year={1993},
  volume={32},
  pages={241-293}
}

R. Blust

Published 1993

Sociology

Oceanic Linguistics

Malayo-Polynesian (CEMP). CEMP, encompassing all of the approximately 600 Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and the Pacific apart from Palauan, Chamorro, and possibly Yapese, is justified by a set of phonological, lexical, morphosyntactic, and semantic innovations that distinguish these languages from the reconstructed ancestor of the Austronesian family as a whole (Proto-Austronesian), and from the putative immediate ancestor of all non-Formosan Austronesian languages (Proto-Malayo… CONTINUE READING

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