Indonesia has an extreme diversity of linguistic wealth, with 707 languages by one count, or
731 languages and more than 1,100 dialects in another estimate, spoken by more than 600 …

This article responds to criticisms of the proposals of Everett 2005 by Nevins, Pesetsky, and
Rodrigues (2009, this issue). It argues that their criticisms are unfounded and that Pirana …

This book provides a comprehensive typological account of voice syncretism, focusing on
resemblance in formal verbal marking between two or more of the following seven voices …

The historical relations of the Papuan languages scattered across the islands of the Alor
archipelago, Timor, and Kisar in southeast Indonesia have remained largely conjectural …

This study provides a systematic overview of articles and article systems in the world's
languages using a sample of 104 languages. Articles can be classified into 10 types …

Languages differ widely from one another in the extent to which they are transparent, ie
obey one-to-one relationships between meaning and form. Transparency, in turn, is an …

This dissertation presents the results of a typological study that investigated the global
distribution of antipassive constructions, as well as the distribution of the relevant …

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 …

In this thesis I investigate the degree of transparency of 22 languages. Transparency is
defined as the extent to which a language maintains one-to-one relations between units at …

Abstract Language documentation and description are closely related practices, often
performed as part of the same fieldwork project on an un (der)-studied language. Research …