Indonesian Language for Foreign Speakers (BIPA) is an Indonesian language learning
aimed at foreigners. The most challenging part for foreign speakers in BIPA learning is …

Metaphors, a ubiquitous feature of human language, reflect mappings from one conceptual
domain onto another. Although founded on bidirectional relations of similarity, their linguistic …

This paper studies the effect of ongoing contact on the Abui reduplication system. Abui, a
Papuan indigenous minority language of eastern Indonesia, has been in contact with the …

Abui (ISO identifier: abz) is spoken by around 17,000 people in central Alor, making it the
largest language in the Alor-Pantar archipelago (Kratochvíl 2007). The dialect described in …

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of documentary film media on the Dutch East
Indies colonial history in Indonesia on student learning outcomes. History learning is a …

Documentary and descriptive work on Timor-Alor-Pantar (TAP) languages has proceeded at
a rapid pace in the last 15 years. The publication of the volumes of TAP sketches by Pacific …

When linguists make inferences about language contact, control data is required for reliable
analysis. Historical data or reconstructions are typically used for that purpose. However …

Typological studies have repeatedly expressed doubt about the possibility of relative clause
markers grammaticalizing from possessive markers. At the same time, cross-linguistic …

This paper provides comprehensive and systematized lists of names of 'moko'drums from
Alor Island, in Southeast Indonesia.'Moko'drums are unique cultural objects from the Alor …

Researchers use different approaches when collecting and managing primary language
materials during fieldwork. Yet it is important that this work is done in a transparent way, so …