The Alor-Pantar languages: History and typology
The Alor-Pantar family constitutes the westernmost outlier group of Papuan (Non-Austronesian) languages. Its twenty or so languages are spoken on the islands of Alor and Pantar, located just north of Timor, in eastern In- donesia. Together with the Papuan languages of Timor, they make up the Timo...
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| description | The Alor-Pantar family constitutes the westernmost outlier group of Papuan (Non-Austronesian) languages. Its twenty or so languages are spoken on
the islands of Alor and Pantar, located just north of Timor, in eastern In-
donesia. Together with the Papuan languages of Timor, they make up the
Timor-Alor-Pantar family. The languages average 5,000 speakers and are
under pressure from the local Malay variety as well as the national lan-
guage, Indonesian.
This volume studies the internal and external linguistic history of this
interesting group, and showcases some of its unique typological features,
such as the preference to index the transitive patient-like argument on
the verb but not the agent-like one; the extreme variety in morphologi-
cal alignment patterns; the use of plural number words; the existence of
quinary numeral systems; the elaborate spatial deictic systems involving
an elevation component; and the great variation exhibited in their kinship
systems.
Unlike many other Papuan languages, Alor-Pantar languages do not ex-
hibit clause-chaining, do not have switch reference systems, never suffix
subject indexes to verbs, do not mark gender, but do encode clusivity in
their pronominal systems. Indeed, apart from a broadly similar head-final
syntactic profile, there is little else that the Alor-Pantar languages share
with Papuan languages spoken in other regions. While all of them show
some traces of contact with Austronesian languages, in general, borrow-
ing from Austronesian has not been intense, and contact with Malay and
Indonesian is a relatively recent phenomenon in most of the Alor-Pantar
region. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-358082024-11-16T05:14:05Z The Alor-Pantar languages: History and typology Klamer, Marian elevationals alor-pantar languages comparative linguistics papuan languages typology linguistics numeral systems Abui language Adang language Alor–Pantar languages Blagar language Parallel and cross cousins Teiwa language Wersing language Western Pantar language Woisika language thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2P Oceanic and Austronesian languages::2PC Papuan languages thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics The Alor-Pantar family constitutes the westernmost outlier group of Papuan (Non-Austronesian) languages. Its twenty or so languages are spoken on the islands of Alor and Pantar, located just north of Timor, in eastern In- donesia. Together with the Papuan languages of Timor, they make up the Timor-Alor-Pantar family. The languages average 5,000 speakers and are under pressure from the local Malay variety as well as the national lan- guage, Indonesian. This volume studies the internal and external linguistic history of this interesting group, and showcases some of its unique typological features, such as the preference to index the transitive patient-like argument on the verb but not the agent-like one; the extreme variety in morphologi- cal alignment patterns; the use of plural number words; the existence of quinary numeral systems; the elaborate spatial deictic systems involving an elevation component; and the great variation exhibited in their kinship systems. Unlike many other Papuan languages, Alor-Pantar languages do not ex- hibit clause-chaining, do not have switch reference systems, never suffix subject indexes to verbs, do not mark gender, but do encode clusivity in their pronominal systems. Indeed, apart from a broadly similar head-final syntactic profile, there is little else that the Alor-Pantar languages share with Papuan languages spoken in other regions. While all of them show some traces of contact with Austronesian languages, in general, borrow- ing from Austronesian has not been intense, and contact with Malay and Indonesian is a relatively recent phenomenon in most of the Alor-Pantar region. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2015-12-31 23:55:55 2018-12-12 10:19:03 2020-04-01T14:36:48Z 2014 book 533875 OCN: 1030814087 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33218 9783944675480 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35808 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33218/1/533875.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33218/1/533875.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33218/1/533875.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33218/1/533875.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33218/1/533875.pdf Language Science Press 10.26530/OAPEN_533875 10.26530/OAPEN_533875 ed03121b-b998-4b50-8d58-1d0745565558 Knowledge Unlatched 9783944675480 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 477 open access |
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| title | The Alor-Pantar languages: History and typology |
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