The Alor-Pantar languages : history and typology / / edited by Marian Klamer
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| Autore: |
Klamer Marian
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| Titolo: |
The Alor-Pantar languages : history and typology / / edited by Marian Klamer
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| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in diversity linguistics ; ; 3.