This paper compares the grammar and lexicon of Alorese, an Austronesian language
spoken in eastern Indonesia, with its closest genealogical relative, Lamaholot, spoken on …

This dissertation reconstructs the history of Alorese, an Austronesian language spoken in
east Indonesia, by combining perspectives from oral history and historical linguistics. The …

Austronesians settled East Nusantara some 3800 years ago (Spriggs 2011), and it is widely
believed that these areas were previously populated with people (Bellwood 2007, Spriggs …

The historical relations of the Papuan languages scattered across the islands of the Alor
archipelago, Timor, and Kisar in southeast Indonesia have remained largely conjectural …

" 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 …

This book is a description of Abui, a Papuan language spoken on Alor Island in eastern
Indonesia. It presents essential parts of Abui grammar in a theoretically neutral way. This …

I present data from Tambora, a now extinct language of central Sumbawa, and argue from
the lexical data and the inferred phonology, compared with areal norms, that it was a …

The vocabulary of Alorese is clearly Austronesian and the language has been classified as
belonging to the Central Malayo-Polynesian (CMP) subgroup (Blust 1993), although it is not …

Adang, a hitherto undescribed Papuan language spoken on the island of Alor, East Nusa
Tenggara (" Nus a Tenggara Timur") Province of Indonesia is potentially endangered. This …

This paper examines the Papuan languages of Island Melanesia, with a view to considering
their typological similarities and differences. The East Papuan languages are thought to be …