This book provides a comprehensive country overview of Southeast Asia's newest nation,
Timor Leste (East Timor). This book focuses on its cultural and ethno-linguistic diversity, and …

This paper surveys the occurrence of gender and numeral classifiers in the languages of the
world and evaluates statistically whether there is a complexity tradeoff between these two …

Traces of language contact; The Flores-Lembata languages in eastern Indonesia Page 1
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Volume 21 Number 1 Panji stories I Article …

The book is the first large-scale typological study of participles, based on data from more
than 100 languages. Its main aim is to model the diversity of non-finite verb forms involved in …

The Papuan languages of Timor, Alor, Pantar and Kisar have long been thought to be
members of a single family. However, their relatedness has not yet been established …

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 …

This paper demonstrates the existence of the Greater West Bomberai family, bringing the
Timor–Alor–Pantar language family of the Lesser Sunda islands into a genealogical unit …

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 …

This dissertation advances our understanding of the cross-linguistic variation in the
expression of temporal adverbial relations, the semantic polyfunctionality of temporal clause …

Earlier literature has suggested that colexification of terms for 'tree','firewood'and 'fire'may be
widespread in Australian and Papuan languages. This feature of Papuan and Australian …