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Lexicostatistically Determined Borrowing and Taboo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Isidore Dyen
Isidore Dyen*
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Yale University
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In my article ‘The lexicostatistical classification of the Malayopolynesian languages’, a procedure for lexicostatistical classification on the basis of percentages of probable cognates in a standard list of basic vocabulary was set forth which had these elements for determining primary groups (i.e. groups with only languages as members) :

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Language , Volume 39 , Issue 1: January-March , March 1963 , pp. 60 - 66
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Copyright © 1963 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 The work reported in this paper was facilitated by grants from the Tri-Institutional Pacific Program and the Office of Education of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

2 Lg. 37. 38–46 (1962).

3 List 1 was obtained from P. J. Enriquez, J. A. Bautista, and F. J. Jamolangue, English-Tagalog-Visayan (Cebuano-Ilongo) vocabulary (Manila, 1949). List 2 was obtained from Rodolfo Cabonce, S.J., Visayan-English dictionary (n.p., n.d.). List 3 was obtained by-Gordon Svelmoe.

4 A Cebu-Bisayan list obtained from Vicente Arriza, of Cantilan, near Surigao.

5 List obtained by Gordon Svelmoe in the vicinity of the city of Surigao.

6 List obtained by Gordon Svelmoe in the vicinity of Lake Mainit, Provinces of Surigao and Agusan.

7 List submitted by Samuel Elbert.

8 List obtained from M. Bataillon, Langue d'Uvea (Wallis) (Paris, 1932).

9 List obtained by Donald Marshall.

10 List obtained by E. M. Quackenbush.

11 List obtained from I. R. Dordillon, Grammaire et dictionnaire de la langue des Îles Marquises (Paris, 1904).

12 List obtained from Donald Marshall.

13 List obtained by George Grace from D. MacDonald, The Oceanic languages (London, 1907).

14 List obtained from H. J. Eggink, Angkola- en Mandailingsch-Bataksch-Nederlandsch woordenboek, Verh. v. h. Bat. Gen. v. K. en W. 72, 1936.

15 List obtained from Sutan Hutagalung.

16 List obtained from M. Joustra, Nederlandsch-Karosche woordenlijst (Leiden, 1922).

17 List obtained from Edward Djanner Sinaga.

18 ‘Salisti internal relationships’, IJAL 16.159 (1950).

19 List obtained by H. P. McKaughan.

20 List obtained by H. C. Conklin.

21 List obtained by Janette Forster.

22 List obtained by C. O. Frake.

23 List obtained by H. C. McKaughan and Richard Gridley.

24 List obtained from Edward Tregear, ‘A Paumotuan dictionary’, Journ. Pol. Soc. 2.195–202; 3.1–8, 51–58, 113–120, 179–186; 4.1–16, 73–88, 157–160 (1893–5).

25 List submitted by Samuel Elbert.

26 List obtained from Edward Tregear and S. Percy Smith, A vocabulary and grammar of the Niuē dialect of the Polynesian language (Wellington, 1907).

27 List obtained from C. M. Churchward, Rotuman grammar and dictionary (Sydney, 1940).

28 List obtained from A. Capell, A Fijian dictionary (Sydney, 1941).

29 See fn. 13.

30 List obtained by George Grace.

31 List submitted by R. G. White.

32 In his unpublished dissertation, Polynesian word history 58 ff. (1956).

33 List obtained by N. Abrams and R. Elkins.

34 List obtained by E. Wolfenden and W. Oates.

35 List obtained by E. Wolfenden and T. Lyman.

36 List obtained by T. Lyman and R. Gieser.