This paper surveys the occurrence of gender and numeral classifiers in the languages of the
world and evaluates statistically whether there is a complexity tradeoff between these two …

This paper refines the subgroupings of the Timor-Alor-Pantar (tap) family of Papuan
languages, using a systematic Bayesian phylogenetics study. While recent work indicates …

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

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

This paper aims at documenting and reconstructing the linguistic processes generating and
substantiating the use of number systems, numbers in general, elementary arithmetic, and …

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 …

While there is overall consensus that narratives obtained by means of visual stimuli contain
less natural language than free narratives, it has been less clear how the naturalness of a …

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