Indonesia is home to over 700 languages. That amounts to around 10% of
theworld'slanguages. Itisonlyitseasternneighbor, PapuaNewGuinea, that …

Let us consider first the question of universality of valency classes as far as coding is
concerned. On the one hand, there are clearly certain cross-linguistic regularities in coding …

This chapter presents an introduction to the Alor-Pantar languages, and to the chapters of
the volume. It discusses the current linguistic ecology of Alor and Pantar, the history of …

We examine the varying role of conditions on grammatical relations marking (namely
animacy and volitionality) by looking at different languages of one family, using both existing …

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 …

This volume provides descriptive sketches of the Papuan languages scattered over the
islands of Timor, Alor, and Pantar at the western perimeter of Melanesia. Timor-Alor-Pantar …

We examine the role of referential properties and lexical stipulation in three closely related
languages of eastern Indonesia, the Alor-Pantar languages Abui, Kamang, and Teiwa. Our …

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 …

The term Papuan languages is a purely negative characterization, covering the languages
of more than thirty language families plus over a dozen isolates, spoken on and around the …

This paper discusses differential argument realization in Abui, a Papuan language (Eastern
Indonesia) with semantic alignment (in terms of Donohue and Wichmann 2008; Kratochvíl …