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The Higher Phylogeny of Austronesian: a Response to Winter

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This paper is a response to criticism by Winter (2010) of Sagart (2004). The author gives examples of compound numerals being affected by several apparently irregular changes outside of Austronesian; argues that the number of changes supposed in his Austronesian model is realistic; presents new evidence of Formosan numerals explainable only on the basis of the PAn forms he posited; explains the order of establishment of disyllabic numerals as depending on two factors: cardinal order and number of competitors; gives Austronesian examples showing that the drive to disyllabism does apply to morphologically complex forms; ascribes the limited similarities between the phylogenies of Blust and Ross to chance. Finally, the author claims that the only realistic explanation to the nesting of six related isoglosses is a sequence of innovations.

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hal-00781136 , version 1 (25-01-2013)

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Laurent Sagart. The Higher Phylogeny of Austronesian: a Response to Winter. Oceanic Linguistics, 2013, 52 (1), pp.249-254. ⟨hal-00781136⟩
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