Re: Polynesian family (was Re: A new Indo-European subfamily in China)

> > Before I go - I know that Japanese and Malay both have a
> > question-marker "ka", though in Malay I think it can go anywhere
> > in the sentence and in Japanese it has to be at the end.  I wonder
> > if anyone's looked at Malay when trying to trace the origins of
> > Japanese?
>
>Oh, yes.  The plurality view on Japanese is that it is an Altaic lang
>with Austronesian substrate, though some think it is vice versa.
Thanks, John.  What's a plurality view?

E-Ching