This paper reviews the “standard” view of the Austronesian language family tree in
connection with the archeological “farming/language dispersal” hypothesis of Neolithic …

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 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 …

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 …

In this reply to Crippen & Robinson's (2013) contribution to Language Documentation &
Conservation, we discuss recent perspectives on 'collaborative'linguistics and the many …

This article discusses the plural word hire in Alorese, an Austronesian language spoken on
the islands of Alor and Pantar, in eastern Indonesia. Following the methodological requisites …

This article describes and compares give-constructions in three languages of eastern
Indonesia, Lamaholot (Austronesian), Alorese (Austronesian), and Adang (Papuan), with the …

The Timor-Alor-Pantar (tap) family are an outlier “Papuan” group, located some 1,000
kilometers west of the New Guinea mainland, see Figure 3.1 and Figure 3.2. 1 The tap family …

Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: The Alorese in eastern Indonesia are an
Austronesian community who have inhabited two Papuan-speaking islands for …