LEADER 03147 am 22004573u 450 001 9910220023703321 005 20190610171729.0 010 $a3-946234-67-4 035 $a(CKB)3800000000216480 035 $a(EXLCZ)993800000000216480 100 $a20171016h20172017 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbu#---uuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Alor-Pantar languages$b[electronic resource] $ehistory and typology /$fedited by Marian Klamer 205 $aSecond edition. 210 1$aBerlin, Germany :$cLanguage Science Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (461 pages) $cillustrations; digital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in Diversity Linguistics ;$vvolume 3 311 08$aHardcover version: 9783946234678 3946234674 311 08$aSoft cover version: 9783946234913 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"The Alor-Pantar family constitutes the westernmost outlier group of Papuan (Non-Austronesian) languages. Its twenty or so languages are spoken on the islands of Alor and Pantar, located just north of Timor, in eastern Indonesia. Together with the Papuan languages of Timor, they make up the Timor-Alor-Pantar family. The languages average 5,000 speakers and are under pressure from the local Malay variety as well as the national language, Indonesian. This volume studies the internal and external linguistic history of this interesting group, and showcases some of its unique typological features, such as the preference to index the transitive patient-like argument on the verb but not the agent-like one; the extreme variety in morphological alignment patterns; the use of plural number words; the existence of quinary numeral systems; the elaborate spatial deictic systems involving an elevation component; and the great variation exhibited in their kinship systems. Unlike many other Papuan languages, Alor-Pantar languages do not exhibit clause-chaining, do not have switch reference systems, never suffix subject indexes to verbs, do not mark gender, but do encode clusivity in their pronominal systems. Indeed, apart from a broadly similar head-final syntactic profile, there is little else that the Alor-Pantar languages share with Papuan languages spoken in other regions. While all of them show some traces of contact with Austronesian languages, in general, borrowing from Austronesian has not been intense, and contact with Malay and Indonesian is a relatively recent phenomenon in most of the Alor-Pantar region. 410 0$aStudies in diversity linguistics ;$v3. 606 $aAlor-Pantar languages 606 $aAlor-Pantar languages$xHistory 606 $aTypology (Linguistics) 608 $bElectronic books. 615 0$aAlor-Pantar languages. 615 0$aAlor-Pantar languages$xHistory. 615 0$aTypology (Linguistics) 676 $a499.12 702 $aKlamer$b Margaretha Anna Flora 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910220023703321 996 $aThe Alor-Pantar languages$91912909 997 $aUNINA