Hey Andrew, thanks! I'm really glad you enjoyed it.

Unfortunately you need a capital o that descends below the line to really make it work

We explore how these passives are similar to (and different from) similar passives such as Chinese bei, the Thai passive, and others in Southeast Asia. Check it out! It's a neat departure from my usual comparative, descriptive, or phonological work.

There's no entry in the ACD because it can't be reconstructed far back enough. Here is a sample from my dissertation with examples.

That's me! Thank you so much. It means alot that people are using and appreciating the "new" ACD, a continuation of Blust's vision.

acd.clld.org/cognatesets/...

These are super interesting cases! Another one is leopard, which is reconstructable to PAn as *lukeNaw, but was replaced in Borneo with *kuliR after the term was lost in the Philippines

Another interesting fact about the C.C clusters that do emerge in Roviana reduplicstion is that they form near -but incomplete- natural classes with notable gaps as well as a few admissible C.C clusters that seem almost random

Thanks!

We touch on other topics related to Austronesian watercraft innovation as well, and posit that paddle-driven craft were used to first reach Taiwan, and later, sail-driven craft were used to reach the Philippines.

The evidence for this reinterpretation comes from the extreme irregularity in reflexes of *saRman, which indicate that the term likely spread through contact.

We presented our findings at the recent International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics and the slides can be found here: www.austronesianist.com/_files/ugd/f...

However, I (along with Kye Shibata, Jian Yu, and Peter Schuelke @schuelke.bsky.social ) argue that the PMP word *saRman “outrigger” cannot be reconstructed to PMP and was more likely a later innovation that spread sometime after the initial movement from Taiwan to the Philippines.

I also argue that pitch-accent may not always correlate with stress, citing interesting observations on the non-isomorphism of pitch and stress in Micronesian languages.

Why does Rukai have glides? The details are in the paper, but it all boils down to distinctions between glides, which alternate with obstruents, and vowels, which don't. The alternating glides reflect PAN glides, whereas the nonalternating vowels reflect full vowels (or have no known etymology).

This is a comment article on Benjamin Macaulay's interesting paper "Speaker judgments alone cannot diagnose syllable structure", which, among other things, argues that Rukai does not have glides and that speaker-judgements may have influenced earlier analyses. doi.org/10.1515/tl-2...

Good luck to her! It's a great department :)