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The Alor-Pantar languages [[electronic resource] ] : history and typology / / edited by Marian Klamer



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Titolo: The Alor-Pantar languages [[electronic resource] ] : history and typology / / edited by Marian Klamer Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin, Germany : , : Language Science Press, , 2017
©2017
Edizione: Second edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (461 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 499.12
Soggetto topico: Alor-Pantar languages
Alor-Pantar languages - History
Typology (Linguistics)
Persona (resp. second.): KlamerMargaretha Anna Flora
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sommario/riassunto: "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.
Titolo autorizzato: The Alor-Pantar languages  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-946234-67-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
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Serie: Studies in diversity linguistics ; ; 3.