Linguistic Evidence for Austronesian Homeland and Dispersal Paul Jen-kuei Li Academia Sinica PNC 2009 Annual Meeting Taipei, October 6-8, 2009.

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Linguistic Evidence for Austronesian Homeland and Dispersal Paul Jen-kuei Li Academia Sinica PNC 2009 Annual Meeting Taipei, October 6-8, 2009

anhome.ppt 2 1. Previous literature (1) Kern Taalkundige gegevens ter bepaling van het stamland der maleisch- Polynesische volken [Linguistic evidence for the determination of the original homeland of the Malayo-Polynesian] (2) Haudricourt Les origines asiatiques des language malayo-polynésiennes. (3) Blust The Austronesian homeland: a linguistic perspective. (4) Bellwood The Austronesian dispersal and the origin of languages.

anhome.ppt 3 2.Three linguistic approaches to the homeland (1) linguistic palaeontology  such as Kern (1889) (2) migration theory (“Wörter and Sachen technique”)  such as Sapir (1916) and Dyen (1956) (3) toponymy (study of place names)

anhome.ppt 4 3. Sapir’s (1916) hypothesis The area of greatest linguistic diversity is the most likely center of dispersal of a language family or linguistic subgroup.

anhome.ppt 5 4.Subgrouping hypotheses of the Austronesian language family (1) Dyen (1965)  Based on lexicostatistics (2) Starosta (1995)  Based on morphological evidence (3) Blust (1999)  Based on phonological evidence (4) Sagart (2004)  Based on lexical evidence of numerals 5-9 (5) Ross (2009)  Based on phonological and morphosyntactic evidence Except Dyen, all these subgrouping hypotheses point to Taiwan as the center of greatest linguistic diversity.

anhome.ppt Dyen (1965) Formosan languages belong to a lower subgroup.

anhome.ppt 7 Cf. Haudricourt (1965)

anhome.ppt Starosta (1995)

anhome.ppt Blust (1999)

anhome.ppt Sagart (2004)

anhome.ppt Ross (2009)

anhome.ppt The most diverse linguistic area in Taiwan The most diverse linguistic area is in Southern Taiwan. Rukai (1st split) and Tsou (2nd split) are spoken in the south, if based on Starosta’s subgrouping hypothesis. 5 out of 9 major subgroups (Paiwan, Puyuma, Rukai, Tsouic and Bunun) are spoken in the south, if based on Blust’s subgrouping hypothesis. 3 out of 4 major subgroups (Puyuma, Rukai, and Tsou) are spoken in the south, if based on Ross’s subgrouping hypothesis.

anhome.ppt 13 6.Did pre-Austronesian speakers arrive in Taiwan at the same time or in successive waves? Most Formosan languages except Puyuma and Saaroa have retained PAN *S as s or , whereas all extra-Formosan languages have lost it or retained it as h. This piece of linguistic evidence indicates that Formosan peoples must have arrived in Taiwan at the same time, or else their reflexes of PAN *S could not have been so uniform. Although Saaroa has also lost *S, it is retained in its most closely related language, Kanakanavu.

anhome.ppt Austric dispersal Reid (1994, 1999) gives convincing linguistic evidence for the Austric hypothesis. Based on Reid, Blust (1996) postulates that the Austric homeland is in the northern tip of Burma, near the border with Sichuan, China and northeast India. The pre-Austronesian speakers dispersed to the east coast of China by the Yangtze River and then went southward along the east coast before they reached Taiwan. However, the archaeological evidence given by Tsang indicates that pre-Austronesian speakers may have come from the southeast coast of Kuangtung, China. How shall we reconcile the difference?

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