Yet more on the position of the languages of eastern Indonesia and East Timor

Donohue, Mark; Grimes, Charles

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Yet more on the position of the languages of eastern Indonesia and East Timor

Date

2008

Authors

Donohue, Mark

Grimes, Charles

Publisher

University of Hawaii Press

Abstract

The line dividing the Austronesian languages into Western Malayo-Polynesian (WMP) and Central-Eastem Malayo-Polynesian (CEMP) is drawn east of Sulawesi and through the middle of Sumbawa. A number of phonological or semantic changes are claimed as forming