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Pukapukan and the NO-EP n Hypothesis: Extensive Late Borrowing by Pukapukan

Pukapukan and the NO-EP n Hypothesis: Extensive Late Borrowing by Pukapukan Abstract: That East Polynesian (EP n ) and the Northern Outliers (NO) subgroup together as NO-EP n within the larger Nuclear Polynesian (NP n ) subgroup is supported with 73 shared innovations given in an earlier publication by Wilson, and 130 newly identified shared innovations in this paper. The major challenge to the NO-EP n hypothesis is a proposal that Pukapukan and EP n form a unique P-EP n subgroup, either apart from all other NP n languages or with the NO languages and possibly also Tuvaluan and Tokelauan. Closely related to this proposal is a hypothesis that Pukapuka (rather than the Central Northern Outliers) served as the “staging post” for the settlement of East Polynesia. The lexicon of Pukapukan includes both words directly inherited from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian (PNP n ) and words indirectly inherited from PNP n through borrowing from EP n languages. Here I investigate whether any innovations shared uniquely by Pukapukan and EP n (or NO-EP n ) are directly inherited. The absence of such directly inherited innovations indicates that there is no unique P-EP n subgroup. Instead, quite late in the history of EP n , a Tokelauan-like Pukapukan borrowed heavily from EP n languages of the Tahitic subgroup, with some additional borrowings from languages spoken on Tikopia and other nearby Outliers. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Oceanic Linguistics University of Hawai'I Press

Pukapukan and the NO-EP n Hypothesis: Extensive Late Borrowing by Pukapukan

Wilson, William H.
Oceanic Linguistics , Volume 53 (2) – Dec 23, 2014
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Abstract: That East Polynesian (EP n ) and the Northern Outliers (NO) subgroup together as NO-EP n within the larger Nuclear Polynesian (NP n ) subgroup is supported with 73 shared innovations given in an earlier publication by Wilson, and 130 newly identified shared innovations in this paper. The major challenge to the NO-EP n hypothesis is a proposal that Pukapukan and EP n form a unique P-EP n subgroup, either apart from all other NP n languages or with the NO languages and possibly also Tuvaluan and Tokelauan. Closely related to this proposal is a hypothesis that Pukapuka (rather than the Central Northern Outliers) served as the “staging post” for the settlement of East Polynesia. The lexicon of Pukapukan includes both words directly inherited from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian (PNP n ) and words indirectly inherited from PNP n through borrowing from EP n languages. Here I investigate whether any innovations shared uniquely by Pukapukan and EP n (or NO-EP n ) are directly inherited. The absence of such directly inherited innovations indicates that there is no unique P-EP n subgroup. Instead, quite late in the history of EP n , a Tokelauan-like Pukapukan borrowed heavily from EP n languages of the Tahitic subgroup, with some additional borrowings from languages spoken on Tikopia and other nearby Outliers.

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Oceanic Linguistics – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: Dec 23, 2014

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