Austronesian expansion

Target entity: Austronesian expansion
Context triple: [Austronesian peoples, associatedWith, Austronesian expansion]

• A. Austronesian peoples
  Austronesian peoples are a widespread ethnolinguistic group originating from Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia whose seafaring descendants settled across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, including Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Madagascar.
• B. Proto-Austronesian
  Proto-Austronesian is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Austronesian language family, from which languages such as Javanese, Tagalog, and Malay are derived.
• C. Lapita culture
  The Lapita culture was an ancient Pacific Ocean archaeological culture known for its distinctive dentate-stamped pottery and for being ancestral to many Polynesian and other Oceanic peoples.
• D. Polynesian outliers
  Polynesian outliers are small, culturally Polynesian communities located on islands outside the main Polynesian Triangle, primarily in Melanesia and Micronesia.
• E. Austronesian alignment
  Austronesian alignment is a morphosyntactic alignment system, common in many Philippine and related languages, where verbal voice and focus mark different core arguments in ways that do not fit neatly into standard nominative–accusative or ergative–absolutive patterns.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Austronesian expansion
Target entity description: The Austronesian expansion was a major prehistoric maritime migration in which seafaring peoples from Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia spread across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, settling vast areas from Madagascar to Polynesia and profoundly shaping the linguistic and cultural landscape of these regions.

• A. Austronesian peoples
  Austronesian peoples are a widespread ethnolinguistic group originating from Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia whose seafaring descendants settled across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, including Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Madagascar.
• B. Proto-Austronesian
  Proto-Austronesian is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Austronesian language family, from which languages such as Javanese, Tagalog, and Malay are derived.
• C. Lapita culture
  The Lapita culture was an ancient Pacific Ocean archaeological culture known for its distinctive dentate-stamped pottery and for being ancestral to many Polynesian and other Oceanic peoples.
• D. Polynesian outliers
  Polynesian outliers are small, culturally Polynesian communities located on islands outside the main Polynesian Triangle, primarily in Melanesia and Micronesia.
• E. Austronesian alignment
  Austronesian alignment is a morphosyntactic alignment system, common in many Philippine and related languages, where verbal voice and focus mark different core arguments in ways that do not fit neatly into standard nominative–accusative or ergative–absolutive patterns.
• F. None of above. chosen