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Abstract:A persistent issue in the comparative study of Land Dayak (Malayo-Polynesian; Western Indonesian; Greater North Borneo) languages is the reconstruction of the Proto-Land Dayak vowel system. Past studies have reconstructed a distinction between "full" and "reduced" vowels in Proto-Land Dayak penultimate syllables. Although full and reduced vowels may be legitimate in certain cases, the evidence for many of the reconstructions is inconsistent with Land Dayak historical phonology and the issue is in need of a second look. Using the comparative method to identify borrowed vocabulary, the present study proposes an alternative Proto-Land Dayak vowel system which largely eliminates the full-reduced distinction from the proto-language except in a handful of cases and explains that modern full and reduced vowels are mostly the result of chronologically more recent borrowing (after the breakup of Proto-Land Dayak).
摘要:马来亚-波利尼西亚土地达亚克族比较研究中的一个长期问题;西方印尼;大北婆罗洲语(Greater North Borneo)是原始大陆达亚克语元音系统的重建。过去的研究重建了原始陆地达亚克语倒数第二个音节中“完整”和“略读”元音之间的区别。虽然在某些情况下，完整元音和略读元音可能是合法的，但许多重建的证据与陆地达亚克的历史音韵学不一致，这个问题需要重新审视。本研究采用比较的方法来识别外来语词汇，提出了一种替代的原地达亚克语元音系统，该系统除少数情况外，在很大程度上消除了原语与原语之间的完全略读区别，并解释了现代的完整元音和略读元音主要是在时间上较近的借用(在原地达亚克语分裂之后)的结果。
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Oceanic Linguistics is the only journal devoted exclusively to the study of the indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of Southeast Asia. The thousand-odd languages within the scope of the journal are the aboriginal languages of Australia, the Papuan languages of New Guinea, and the languages of the Austronesian (or Malayo-Polynesian) family. Articles in Oceanic Linguistics cover issues of linguistic theory that pertain to languages of the area, report research on historical relations, or furnish new information about inadequately described languages.
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