33.774, Books: A history of Alorese (Austronesian): Sulistyono

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:44:34
From: Karijn Hootsen [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: A history of Alorese (Austronesian): Sulistyono

 


Title: A history of Alorese (Austronesian) 
Subtitle: Combining linguistic and oral history 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation series  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/a-history-of-alorese-austronesian-combining-linguistic-and-oral-history 


Author: Yunus Sulistyono

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933998 Pages: 490 Price: Europe EURO 43


Abstract:

Alorese is spoken in coastal areas of the Alor archipelago in eastern
Indonesia, located in the province of East Nusa Tenggara. It is the only
Austronesian local language spoken in the Alor archipelago, which is otherwise
mostly home to Alor-Pantar (Papuan) languages. The speakers of Alorese are
predominantly Muslims, among a majority of Christian inhabitants of the Alor
Regency.

This dissertation reconstructs the history of Alorese by combining
perspectives from oral history and historical linguistics. The social history
of the Alorese people is reconstructed through migration stories based on
narrative accounts from fourteen Alorese villages. The historical linguistic
study of Alorese begins with a grammatical description of the Alorese dialect
spoken in northeast Pantar. This is followed by a study of Alorese historical
phonology, in which varieties of Alorese are compared with varieties of its
sister language, Western Lamaholot. This dissertation also examines lexical
borrowing from the Alor-Pantar (Papuan) languages into Alorese and vice versa.

Based on a combined investigation of lingusitic and oral history, this
dissertation proposes that the homeland of the Alorese people may have been in
northeast Pantar. The study of Alorese historical phonology results in the
bottom-up reconstruction of the sounds of Proto-Alorese and its vocabulary,
and the establishment of Alorese as a subgroup of the Flores-Lembata
languages, the next higher group within Malayo-Polynesian. In addition, the
investigation of loanwords also provides insight into the history of contact
between the Alorese and the speakers of the Alor-Pantar (Papuan) languages in
the Alor archipelago.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Phonology
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Alor (aol)


Written In: English  (eng)

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