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 studies the effect of ongoing contact on the Abui reduplication system. Abui, a
Papuan indigenous minority language of eastern Indonesia, has been in contact with the …

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 …

It is commonly assumed that basic cardinal numerals such as English three are simplex
expressions whose primary function is to quantify over entities denoted by the modified NP …

6.1 Agreement 153 6.1. 1 Agreement on intransitive verbs 154 6.1. 2 Agreement on
transitive verbs 155 6.1. 3 Agreement on ditransitive verbs 157 6.2'Derivational'uses of …

This chapter presents an in-depth analysis of numeral forms and systems in the Alor-Pantar
(AP) languages. The AP family reflects a typologically rare combination of mono-morphemic …

This chapter presents an in-depth analysis of numeral forms and systems in the Alor-Pantar
(AP) languages. The AP family reflects a typologically rare combination of mono-morphemic …

Similar grammaticalization patterns found across languages do not come about by chance.
They may arise because they were inherited from a common ancestor language, or because …

This thesis investigates how the knowledge of number is linguistically implemented, on the
basis of a wide range of cross-linguistic data. I concentrate on cardinals, ordinals and …

This paper deals with the expression of the category of number in the grammars of Abui and
Sawila, two Papuan languages of the Alor-Pantar Archipelago of Eastern Indonesia, shown …