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 …

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 Papuan languages of Timor, Alor, Pantar and Kisar have long been thought to be
members of a single family. However, their relatedness has not yet been established …

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

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 …

A morphosyntactic peculiarity that separates proper names from (most) other noun types is
their ability to occur in a special type of plural, called associative plural, whose meaning is X …

The topic of this thesis is non-possessive person in the nominal domain, or nominal person.
By this, I mean the grammatical person of nominal phrases which anchors their denotation …

This paper demonstrates the existence of the Greater West Bomberai family, bringing the
Timor–Alor–Pantar language family of the Lesser Sunda islands into a genealogical unit …

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 volume provides descriptive sketches of the Papuan languages scattered over the
islands of Timor, Alor, and Pantar at the western perimeter of Melanesia. Timor-Alor-Pantar …