22.4202, Books: Historical Ling/Lang Documentation/Morphology/Phonology: Klamer

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Date: 23-Oct-2011
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: A Short Grammar of Alorese (Austronesian): Klamer

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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:01:03
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: A Short Grammar of Alorese (Austronesian): Klamer

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Title: A Short Grammar of Alorese (Austronesian) 
Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 486  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.eu

Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu 

Author: Marian Klamer

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862881727 Pages: 142 Price: Europe EURO 48.80

Abstract:

Alorese (Bahasa Alor) (25,000 speakers) is the only indigenous Austronesian 
(Malayo-Polynesian) language spoken amongst the Papuan languages of the 
Alor-Pantar archipelago in south-eastern Indonesia. Like many of the other 
minority languages spoken in this part of Indonesia, Alorese has not been 
previously described. This sketch is based on primary data collected by the 
author during on-site fieldwork in 2003.

While earlier sources suggest that Alorese is a dialect of Lamaholot, this 
grammar compares the Alorese basic lexicon with that of three Lamaholot 
dialects, to suggest that Alorese is a language of its own. Another feature 
that distinguishes Alorese from any of the Lamaholot dialects is its isolating 
profile, lacking all productive morphology.

There are significant lexical differences between Alorese dialects spoken on 
Pantar island and those spoken on Alor. The present sketch notes such 
variation, but emphasis is on the language as it is spoken in Baranusa, west 
Pantar. Historical and ethnographic evidence is presented to reconstruct the 
history of its speakers as migrants from the east Flores Lamaholot-speaking 
region, who arrived in Pantar before or around 1,300 AD. Alorese phonology 
and morphology are sketched before presenting the major grammatical 
constructions used. Serial verb constructions, especially directional ones, are 
often used. Alorese combines head-initial clausal constituent order with post-
predicate negation and a clause-final conjunction. It has accusative 
alignment, the grammatical relations subject and object are expressed by 
constituent order. Alorese non-declarative sentence types are structurally 
very similar to declarative ones. Clauses are linked to each by conjunctive 
linking words or by complementation; complementation is by juxtaposition. 
Alorese contains words and grammatical constructions that are non-
Austronesian. Details are presented suggesting that these are due to different 
kinds of contact between Alorese and Papuan languages in historic and 
prehistoric times. 

Linguistic Field(s): Austronesian Languages
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Morphology
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): Alor (aol)

Language Family(ies): Austronesian

Written In: English  (eng)

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