Every language has a mechanism for expressing possession, within a noun phrase and
within a clause. Some languages have a dedicated, possessive, construction. Others …

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 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 …

This paper compares the grammar and lexicon of Alorese, an Austronesian language
spoken in eastern Indonesia, with its closest genealogical relative, Lamaholot, spoken on …

This article presents a typological survey of patterns of adnominal possession in 85
Austronesian and Papuan languages of Linguistic Wallacea, providing a more granular …

This thesis is a grammatical description of Dela (ISO 639-3: row), an Austronesian language
of western Rote, eastern Indonesia, spoken by approximately 11,000 native speakers. The …

Oceanic languages typically make a grammatical contrast between expressions of alienable
and inalienable possession. Moreover, further distinctions are made in the alienable …

The so-called 'Jespersen Cycle'is a hypothesis on how languages renew negative markers.
Pride of place in this hypothesis is a kind of double negation, one that is formally double yet …

This book is a grammar of Kalamang, a Papuan language of western New Guinea in the
east of Indonesia. It is spoken by around 130 people in the villages Mas and Antalisa on the …

Austronesians settled East Nusantara some 3800 years ago (Spriggs 2011), and it is widely
believed that these areas were previously populated with people (Bellwood 2007, Spriggs …