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

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 investigates variation in possessive marking in Abui, a language spoken in a
minority bilingual community in eastern Indonesia. Abui youngsters grow up acquiring both …

" The Alor-Pantar family constitutes the westernmost outlier group of Papuan (Non-
Austronesian) languages. Its twenty or so languages are spoken on the islands of Alor and …

Abstract In Kamang (Alor-Pantar, Indonesia), some verbs alternate between indexing the S
or P argument with a prefix (from several different series) and occurring unprefixed; that is …

This paper introduces the topic and the contributions of this special issue. While lexical
restrictions are well-studied for grammatical relations defining argument coding (case …

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 paper describes and compares the differential object marking in Teiwa (Klamer 2010a)
and Abui (Kratochvíl 2007; 2014a; Kratochvíl & Delpada 2015b), two members of the AP …

We present a system that automatically groups verb stems into inflection classes, performing
a case study of Abui verbs. Starting from a relatively small number of fully glossed Abui …

This paper deals with the encoding of affectedness in Abui, a Papuan language of
Indonesia. Abui is a head-marking language of the rare type where the verbs are marked for …