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 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 …

We examine the varying role of conditions on grammatical relations marking (namely
animacy and volitionality) by looking at different languages of one family, using both existing …

This paper explores transitivity-related features in Abui, a language with fluid semantic
alignment (after Donohue and Wichmann 2008). Many known semantically aligned …

This paper discusses differential argument realization in Abui, a Papuan language (Eastern
Indonesia) with semantic alignment (in terms of Donohue and Wichmann 2008; Kratochvíl …

This paper describes and compares the differential object marking in Teiwa (Klamer 2010a)
and Abui (Kratochvíl 2007; 2014a; Kratochvíl & Delpada 2015b), two members of the AP …

The Alor-Pantar languages are particularly interesting for examining the relative importance
of referential properties as opposed to lexical stipulation in determining pronominal marking …

This paper investigates the influence of Abui plant names on Alor Island's toponyms. Abui is
a Papuan language spoken in Alor Island (Alor-Pantar Archipelago, South-East Indonesia …

Word classes in Timor–Alor–Pantar and the Papuan region | The Oxford Handbook of Word
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Abstract The Timor-Alor-Pantar (TAP) language family has a special place in South-East
Asian linguistics; its members make up the western extreme of the Papuan language …