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The Alor-Pantar languages: history and typology. Second edition.

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The Alor-Pantar family constitutes the westernmost outlier group of Papuan (Non-Austronesian) languages. Its twenty or so languages are spoken on the islands of Alor and Pantar, located just north of Timor, in eastern Indonesia. Together with the Papuan languages of Timor, they make up the Timor-Alor-Pantar family. The languages average 5,000 speakers and are
under pressure from the local Malay variety as well as the national language, Indonesian. This volume studies the internal and external linguistic history of this
interesting group, and showcases some of its unique typological features, such as the preference to index the transitive patient-like argument on the verb but not the agent-like one; the extreme variety in morphological alignment patterns; the use of plural number words; the existence of quinary numeral systems; the elaborate spatial deictic systems involving an elevation component; and the great variation exhibited in their kinship systems.

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Call Number

499.12 KLA a

Publisher

London : Language Science Press., 2017

Collation

509 p.; 23 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783961100224

Classification

499.12

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Edition

2nd Edition

Subject(s)

History
Languages and Literatures
Typology (Linguistics)

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Klamer, Marian

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