The Alor-Pantar languages
Marian Klamer
The Alor-Pantar languages
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The Alor-Pantar family constitutes the westernmost outlier group of Papuan(Non-Austronesian) languages. Its twenty or so languages are spoken onthe islands of Alor and Pantar, located just north of Timor, in eastern In-donesia. Together with the Papuan languages of Timor, they make up theTimor-Alor-Pantar family. The languages average 5,000 speakers and areunder pressure from the local Malay variety as well as the national lan-guage, Indonesian.This volume studies the internal and external linguistic history of thisinteresting group, and showcases some of its unique typological features,such as the preference to index the transitive patient-like argument onthe verb but not the agent-like one; the extreme variety in morphologi-cal alignment patterns; the use of plural number words; the existence ofquinary numeral systems; the elaborate spatial deictic systems involvingan elevation component; and the great variation exhibited in their kinshipsystems.Unlike many other Papuan languages, Alor-Pantar languages do not ex-hibit clause-chaining, do not have switch reference systems, never suffixsubject indexes to verbs, do not mark gender, but do encode clusivity intheir pronominal systems. Indeed, apart from a broadly similar head-finalsyntactic profile, there is little else that the Alor-Pantar languages sharewith Papuan languages spoken in other regions. While all of them showsome traces of contact with Austronesian languages, in general, borrow-ing from Austronesian has not been intense, and contact with Malay andIndonesian is a relatively recent phenomenon in most of the Alor-Pantarregion.

Language
English
ISBN
978-3-944675-48-0
Preface and acknowledgementsMarian Klamer
The Alor-Pantar languages: Linguistic context, history and typologyMarian Klamer
Introduction
Current linguistic situation on Alor and Pantar
The Papuan languages of Alor and Pantar
Indigenous Austronesian languageslan]Austronesian language(s) on Alor and Pantar
Indonesian and Alor Malay
History of research on the Alor and Pantar languages
History of Alor and Pantar languages and their speakers
Prehistory
Historical records on Alor and Pantar
Contact
Typological overview
Phonology
Pronominalsbj]pronoun indexing and morphological alignment
Possession
Plural number words
Serial verb constructions
Postpositions
Morphological typology
Typological features of AP languages in the Papuan context
Lexicon
Cognates and reconstructed vocabulary
Numerals and numeral systems
Numeral classifiers
Kinship terminology
Challenges for future research
Data collection and archiving
The internal history of the Alor-Pantar language familyGary Holton & Laura C. Robinson
Introduction
Sound correspondences and reconstruction
Voiced stops
Voiceless stops
Fricatives
Nasals
Liquids
Glides
Reconstructed proto-Alor-Pantarlan]proto-Alor-Pantar vocabulary
Internal subgrouping
Subgrouping based on shared phonological innovationssbj]innovation
Subgrouping based on lexical characters
Discussion
The relatedness of Timor-Kisar and Alor-Pantar languages: A preliminary demonstrationAntoinette Schapper, Juliette Huber & Aone van Engelenhoven
Introduction
Sound correspondences
Reconstruction of bilabial stops
Reconstruction of coronal stops
Reconstruction of velar stops
Reconstruction of fricatives
Reconstruction of glides
Reconstruction of liquids
Reconstruction of nasals
Summary of correspondences and reconstructed phonemes
Discussion
Appendix
Data supporting the additional pAPlan]proto-Alor-Pantar reconstructions
Data supporting the additional pTIMlan]proto-Timor reconstructions
List of cognates and pTAPlan]proto-Timor Alor Pantar reconstruction
The linguistic position of the Timor-Alor-Pantar languagesGary Holton & Laura C. Robinson
Introduction
Typological evidence
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Pronominalsbj]pronoun evidence
Lexicon
Lexical evidence for the NH hypothesis
Lexical evidence for the TNGlan]Trans-New Guinea language(s) hypothesis
Comparison with individual languages
South Bird's Head
Dani
Wissel Lakeslan]Wissel Lakes language(s)
West Bomberailan]Bomberai language(s)
Discussion
Kinship in the Alor-Pantar languagesGary Holton
Introduction
Kin terminology
Western Pantar
Teiwa
Blagar
Kiraman
Adang
Abui
Kamang
Wersing
Summary and comparison of kinship terms
Marriage prescriptions
Symmetrical exchange
Asymmetrical exchange
Non-prescriptive systems
Discussion
Elevation in the spatial deictic systems of Alor-Pantar languagesAntoinette Schapper
Introduction
Terminological preliminaries
Alor-Pantar elevationalsbj]elevation systems
Wersinglan]Wersing
Teiwalan]Teiwa
Abuilan]Abui
Blagarlan]Blagar
Adang
Western Pantarlan]Western Pantar
Kamanglan]Kamang
Summary
History of AP elevationsbj]elevation terms
Proto-elevationalssbj]elevation
Proto-elevationalsbj]elevation verbs
Elaborations of the proto-system
Conclusion
Numeral systems in the Alor-Pantar languagesAntoinette Schapper & Marian Klamer
Introduction
Terminological preliminaries
A brief note on sound changessbj]sound change and numerals
Numerals `one' to `five'
Numerals `six' to `nine'
Numeral `six': Simplexsbj]simplex numeral and compound forms
Numerals `seven' to `nine'
Additivesbj]additive numeral base-five compounds
Subtractivesbj]subtractive numeral base-ten compounds and extensions
Other mixed systems for `seven' to `nine'
Numerals `ten' and above
Numeral `ten': multiplied base-ten compound
Numerals within decades
Multiples of `hundred' and `thousand'
Alor-Pantar numerals from a typological and areal perspective
Typological rarities in AP numeral(s)
AP numerals in their areal context
Conclusions and discussion
Sources
Appendix
Cardinal numeralssbj]cardinal numeral(s) in the Alor-Pantar languages
Numerals `one' to `ten' in Austronesian languageslan]Austronesian language(s) W of Alor-Pantar
Numerals `one' to `ten' in Austronesian languageslan]Austronesian language(s) S & E of Alor-Pantar
Numeral words and arithmetic operations in the Alor-Pantar languagesMarian Klamer, Antoinette Schapper, Greville Corbett, Gary Holton, František Kratochvíl & Laura C. Robinson
Introduction
Operations to create numeral words
Cardinal numerals
Ordinal numeralssbj]ordinal numeral(s)
Distributive numeralssbj]distributive numerals
Forms and distribution of distributivessbj]distributive numerals
Regular distributivesbj]distributive numerals formation
Irregularities in distributivesbj]distributive numerals formation
Structures expressing arithmetic operations
Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Division
Fractions
Summary and conclusions
Sources
Appendix
Ordinalsbj]ordinal numeral(s) and Distributive Numeralssbj]distributive numerals
Numeral Questionnaire used in the field
Numerals
Points for further elicitation
Numerals 1-100
Higher cardinalssbj]cardinal numeral(s)
Plural number words in the Alor-Pantar languagesMarian Klamer, Antoinette Schapper & Greville Corbett
Introduction
Pluralsbj]plural (number) word number words across Alor-Pantar
Syntax of pluralsbj]plural (number) word words in Alor-Pantar
Western Pantarlan]Western Pantar
Teiwalan]Teiwa
Kamanglan]Kamang
Abuilan]Abui
Wersinglan]Wersing
Summary
Semantics of pluralsbj]plural (number) word words in Alor-Pantar
Completeness
Abundance
Individuation
Individuation of mass to count
Clan or place name to members
Partitive
Vocative
Summary
Typological perspectives on pluralsbj]plural (number) word words in AP languages
Conclusions
Participant marking: Corpus study and video elicitationSebastian Fedden & Dunstan Brown
Introduction
Alignment
Number of person prefix series
Video elicitation
Video stimuli
Speakers and procedure
Participant properties
Abui
Inflection classes in Abui
Affectedness in Abui
Volitionality in Abui
Kamang
Inflection classes in Kamang
Affectedness in Kamang
Animacy and verb classes in Teiwa
Discussion and conclusion
Appendix
The Video Elicitation Task
Background
Task
Materials
Requirements
Number of speakers
Procedure
Further probing and elicitation
List of video clips
Indexes
Name index
Language index
Subject index
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