Since the 1970s, Austronesian higher-order subgrouping has often included a Western
Malayo-Polynesian (WMP) node within the larger Malayo-Polynesian (MP) group. WMP …

At 287,000 square miles, Borneo is the third largest island in the world. It is just larger than
the US state of Texas (286,000 square miles) but with a population of around 19 million, has …

Competing schools of thought on the reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian stress contend
that primary stress was either regular (falling on the penultimate syllable with possible …

Hliboi Bidayuh is spoken in the West Kalimantan province of Indonesia, on the island of
Borneo. It is part of the larger Land Dayak subgroup, with member languages on both sides …

Why are there so many languages in the world and how did this diversity come about? Every
day, humans around the world speak over 7,000 languages. One of the most impactful …

Several recent studies place the languages of Borneo into one of two large groups, the
Greater North Borneo subgroup and the Barito–Basap linkage. These same studies place …

Enggano, spoken on an island of the same name off the southern coast of Sumatra,
Indonesia, has long puzzled historical linguists. Its high rate of lexical replacement and …

Segai-Modang languages, located primarily in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, and directly
descended from Proto-Kayanic (PKay), are of a phonological type far removed from Proto …

The classification of the languages of Borneo has been recently updated. New proposals
from the dissertation The languages of Borneo: a linguistic classification (Smith 2017a) …

TRACING THE PATH OF CONSTRAINT MOVEMENT: THE AUSTRONESIAN BINARY-FOOT
REQUIREMENT AND WORD-MINIMUM PHENOMENA Alexander D. Smith Page 1 1 Alexander …