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100 1 $aKlamer, Marian$4aut
245 10 $aThe Alor-Pantar languages: History and typology
260 $a$bLanguage Science Press$c2014
300 $a1 electronic resource (477 p.)
520 $aThe 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.
546 $aEnglish
650 7 $2bicssc$a
650 7 $2bicssc$aOceanic and Austronesian languages
650 7 $2bicssc$aPapuan languages
650 7 $2bicssc$aLanguage
650 7 $2bicssc$alinguistics
653 $alinguistics
653 $atypology
653 $aPapuan languages
653 $aAlor-Pantar languages
653 $anumeral systems
653 $aelevationals
653 $acomparative linguistics
856 40 $uhttp://oapen.org/download?type=document&docid=533875$zhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/