Open AccessTypology and Linguistic Areas
Author(s) -
Mark Donohue
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
oceanic linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.177
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1527-9421
pISSN - 0029-8115
DOI - 10.1353/ol.2004.0008
Subject(s) - typology , linguistics , austronesian languages , linguistic typology , geography , history , archaeology , philosophy
A closer look shows that rather than constituting a linguistic area on its own, the region between Lombok and Papua is simply part of a typological continuum that runs from the northern Austronesian languages in Taiwan and the Philippines through Malaysia and western Indonesia east toward Melanesia, without any linguistically definable borders on either side.
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