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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 19:50:33
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: The Alor-Pantar languages (Second edition): Klamer (ed.)

Title: The Alor-Pantar languages (Second edition) 
Subtitle: History and typology. 
Series Title: Studies in Diversity Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org

Book URL: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/157 

Editor: Marian Klamer

Electronic: ISBN:  9783944675947 Pages: 479 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access

Abstract:

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.

Unlike many other Papuan languages, Alor-Pantar languages do not exhibit
clause-chaining, do not have switch reference systems, never suffix subject
indexes to verbs, do not mark gender, but do encode clusivity in their
pronominal systems. Indeed, apart from a broadly similar head-final syntactic
profile, there is little else that the Alor-Pantar languages share with Papuan
languages spoken in other regions. While all of them show some traces of
contact with Austronesian languages, in general, borrowing from Austronesian
has not been intense, and contact with Malay and Indonesian is a relatively
recent phenomenon in most of the Alor-Pantar region.

This is the second edition of the volume that was originally published in
2014, as one of the first open access publications of Language Science Press.
In less than three years, the first edition had more than 10,000 downloads,
many of which in Indonesia, and downloads are still increasing. To us this
demonstrates how important it is to use use free open access to enable both
scientists and speakers of local languages in Indonesia to read this work.

In this second edition, typographical errors have been corrected, some small
textual improvements have been implemented, broken URL links repaired or
removed, and maps and references updated. The overall content of the chapters
has not been changed.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Papuan Malay (pmy)

Written In: English  (eng)

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