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Autore: | Klamer Marian |
Titolo: | The Alor-Pantar languages : history and typology / / edited by Marian Klamer |
Pubblicazione: | Language Science Press, 2014 |
Berlin, Germany : , : Language Science Press, , 2014 | |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (469 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 499.12 |
Soggetto topico: | Alor-Pantar languages |
Alor-Pantar languages - History | |
Typology (Linguistics) | |
Soggetto non controllato: | 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 | |
Persona (resp. second.): | KlamerMargaretha Anna Flora |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Alor-Pantar languages |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910135395603321 |
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