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 …

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

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 paper describes a procedure to link a Toolbox dictionary of a low-resource language to
correct synsets, generating a new wordnet. We introduce a bootstrapping technique utilising …

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 …

Abstract The Timor-Alor-Pantar (TAP) language family has a special place in South-East
Asian linguistics; its members make up the western extreme of the Papuan language …

Documenting the linguistic practices of an endangered-language community necessarily
crosses the boundaries of fields other than linguistics, as these practices encode a rich …

This research provides a systematic reconstruction of nine botanical names from the Papuan
languages spoken on Alor Island. Although genealogical links among the Papuan Timor …

Abstract Teiwa, an Alor-Pantar language of the Trans-New Guinea family, has been
characterized as expressing speech reports not with complementation, but with …

This squib highlights difficulties with the reconstruction of a system of stress based on moraic
trochees in Proto-Timor-Alor-Pantar recently presented by Heston. Examination of a wider …