The Austronesian Homeland and Dispersal

IF 3 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
R. Blust
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Abstract

The Austronesian language family is the second largest on Earth in number of languages, and was the largest in geographical extent before the European colonial expansions of the past five centuries. This alone makes the determination of its homeland a research question of the first order. There is now near-universal agreement among both linguists and archaeologists that the Austronesian expansion began from Taiwan, somewhat more than a millennium after it was settled by Neolithic rice and millet farmers from Southeast China. The first “long pause,” between the settlement of Taiwan and of the northern Philippines, may have been due to inadequate sailing technology, an obstacle that was overcome by the invention of the outrigger canoe complex. The second “long pause,” between the settlement of Fiji–Western Polynesia and of the rest of Triangle Polynesia, may also have been due to inadequate sailing technology, an obstacle that was overcome by the invention of the double-hulled canoe.
南岛人的家园和散布
南岛语系是地球上语言数量第二大的语系,在过去五个世纪欧洲殖民扩张之前,它在地理范围上是最大的。仅这一点就使确定它的家园成为首要的研究问题。现在,语言学家和考古学家几乎都一致认为,南岛人的扩张始于台湾,比新石器时代中国东南部种植水稻和小米的农民在台湾定居的时间晚了一千多年。第一次“漫长的停顿”,发生在台湾和菲律宾北部之间,可能是由于航海技术的不足,这一障碍被支腿式独木舟的发明所克服。第二次“长停顿”发生在斐济-西波利尼西亚和三角波利尼西亚其他地区之间,这也可能是由于航海技术的不足,而双壳独木舟的发明克服了这一障碍。
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期刊介绍: The Annual Review of Linguistics, in publication since 2015, covers significant developments in the field of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interfaces. Reviews synthesize advances in linguistic theory, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language change, biology and evolution of language, typology, as well as applications of linguistics in many domains.
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