Sound correspondence patterns play a crucial role for linguistic reconstruction. Linguists use
them to prove language relationship, to reconstruct proto-forms, and for classical …

What are place names? From where do they originate? How are they structured? What do
they signify? How important are they in our life? This groundbreaking book explores these …

This paper refines the subgroupings of the Timor-Alor-Pantar (tap) family of Papuan
languages, using a systematic Bayesian phylogenetics study. While recent work indicates …

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 …

Collaboration has become a hot topic in the field of language documentation, with many
authors insisting that lone wolf research is unethical research. We take issue with the …

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 …

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 …

The Lesser Sunda Islands in eastern Indonesia cover a longitudinal distance of some 600
kilometres. They are the westernmost place where languages of the Austronesian family …

This paper discusses historical and ongoing morphological simplification in Alorese, an
Austronesian language spoken in eastern Indonesia. From comparative evidence, it is clear …