Editing Malayo-Polynesian languages (section)

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Zobel (2002) proposes a ''Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian'' subgroup, based on putative shared innovations in the [[Austronesian alignment]] and [[syntax]] found throughout Indonesia apart from much of Borneo and the north of Sulawesi. This subgroup comprises the languages of the [[Greater Sunda Islands]] ([[Malayo-Chamic languages|Malayo-Chamic]], [[Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands languages|Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands]], [[Lampung language|Lampung]], [[Sundanese language|Sundanese]], [[Javanese language|Javanese]], [[Madurese language|Madurese]], [[Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa languages|Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa]]) and most of Sulawesi ([[Celebic languages|Celebic]], [[South Sulawesi languages|South Sulawesi]]), [[Palauan language|Palauan]], [[Chamorro language|Chamorro]] and the [[Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages]].<ref>Zobel, Erik, "The position of Chamorro and Palauan in the Austronesian family tree: evidence from verb morphosyntax". In: Fay Wouk and Malcolm Ross (ed.), 2002. ''The history and typology of western Austronesian voice systems.'' Australian National University.</ref> This hypothesis is one of the few attempts to link certain [[Western Malayo-Polynesian languages]] with the [[Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages]] in a higher intermediate subgroup, but has received little further scholarly attention.