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- Schapper, Antoinette, et al.
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Introduction to special issue on areal typology of lexico-semantics
- 2022
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Ingår i: Linguistic typology. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1430-0532 .- 1613-415X. ; 26:2, s. 199-209
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In recent years, the lexicon has become increasingly popular as a subject for cross-linguistic study. Although there is some debate around the exact meaning, ‘lexical typology’ – as it has come to be known – is, at its broadest, the systematic study of cross-linguistic variation in words and vocabularies (cf. Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2008; Koptjevskaja-Tamm et al. 2016). This special issue will treat lexico-semantic phenomena showing parallels across languages and address how these similarities may be described and accounted for – by universal tendencies, genetic relations among the languages, their contacts and/or their common extra-linguistic surrounding.Morphosyntactic and phonological features are regularly used by linguists to establish the existence of linguistic areas and construct areally based typologies. By contrast, lexico-semantic phenomena have, with a few exceptions (e.g., Brown 2011; Enfield 2003; Matisoff 2004; Smith-Stark 1994; Sobolev 2001), received remarkably little attention from areal linguistics and areal typology, and little is known about the geographical variation they display. Matisoff (2004), Vanhove (2008), Zalizniak et al. (2012) and Urban (2012) give numerous examples of cross-linguistically recurrent patterns of polysemy; whilst some are found the world over, others are clearly areally restricted and witnesses of language contact.
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- Schapper, Antoinette, et al.
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Reconstructing contact between Alor and Timor : Evidence from language and beyond
- 2018
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Ingår i: NUSA: Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia. - 0126-2874 .- 2187-7297. ; 64, s. 95-112
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite being separated by a short sea-crossing, the neighbouring islands of Alor and Timor in south-eastern Wallacea have to date been treated as separate units of linguistic analysis and possible linguistic influence between them is yet to be investigated. Historical sources and oral traditions bear witness to the fact that the communities from both islands have been engaged with one another for a long time. This paper brings together evidence of various types including song, place names and lexemes to present the first account of the interactions between Timor and Alor. We show that the groups of southern and eastern Alor have had long-standing connections with those of north-central Timor, whose importance has generally been overlooked by historical and linguistic studies.
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- Schapper, Antoinette, et al.
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State-of-the-art in the documentation of the Papuan languages of Timor, Alor, Pantar and Kisar
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Ingår i: Wacana. - 1411-2272. ; 14:2, s. 370-404
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Timor-Alor-Pantar language family has a special place in South-East Asian linguistics; its members make up the western extreme of the Papuan language sphere. Along with an exhaustive bibliography of works on the TAP languages, this paper presents a state-of-the-art review of the ongoing documentation of the TAP language family in terms of both linguistic description and (pre-)historical reconstruction. The paper concludes with a consideration of the prospects for future studies of the TAP languages.
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- Schapper, Antoinette, et al.
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The historical relation of the Papuan languages of Timor and Kisar
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Ingår i: Language & Linguistics in Melanesia. - 0023-1959. ; , s. 194-242
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Papuan languages on the islands of Timor, Alor, Pantar and Kisar have typically been supposed to be related to one another. Based on their geographical proximity, this assumption of relatedness has been supported by impressionistic assessments of lexical and phonological similarity and the results of lexicostatistical measurements. Whilst recent historical work has shown definitively that the languages of Alor and Pantar are related to one another (Holton et al. 2012), the relation of the Papuan languages on Timor and Kisar has not yet been established with the proper methodological rigour. In this paper we present the results of a study applying the comparative method to the Timor and Kisar languages. We demonstrate the inter-relatedness of the Timor-Kisar languages through the identification of abundant cognate sets with regular sound correspondences between languages.
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- Wellfelt, Emilie
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Historyscapes in Alor : Approaching indigenous history in Eastern Indonesia
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis deals with history and history-making practices in Alor, a small island in southeastern Indonesia. As in all of Indonesia, the people of Alor have experienced European colonialism, and after independence, a period of centralised, authoritarian rule under the New Order (1965-1998). This regime focussed heavily on Indonesia as a united entity, and history was an instrument used in building the nation.Democratisation and decentralisation reforms after 1998 saw interest in formulating the history of the region, village or group rather than the nation blossom. My research took place in the history boom of the 2000s when recording history was a task of urgency for many in Alor. A theoretical and methodological challenge rose from the observation of two different approaches to history, each with separate understandings of what ‘history’ is and what its sources are: ‘academic history’ and ‘indigenous history’. Academic history is concerned with time and dates; indigenous history emphasises spatiality and place. Academic history tends to rely on archival sources and is concerned with establishing chronologies of events. By contrast, indigenous history in Alor is based on oral sources, objects preserved locally, and stories rooted in the landscape. Indigenous histories may include non-human actors like dragons or sea-people living in underwater villages. In academic history, such accounts are discarded as legends or myths of no relevance to history. In this thesis, the ontological gap between these two modes of history is central. I argue that indigenous stories reveal much about historical experiences. The realism claimed by academic history is just another human construct of the past.In the thesis, I develop the idea of a ‘historyscape’ as a methodological tool for handling indigenous histories displaying a wealth of narrators, stories and themes relating to the past. ‘Historyscapes’ is a term which unites conceptual and geographical understandings of an area or realm. A historyscape is shaped and marked off from other areas by stories and perceptions about, as well as experiences from, a shared past. Applied to Alor, the historyscape methodology reveals geographies based on the manner groups and areas connect to each other through key stories. For Alor, I establish four historyscapes. In each, an initial place-oriented reading of indigenous sources is followed by a chronological reading, in which the sources of academic history are included. The juxtaposition with academic history mainly shows the manner in which the colonial powers (Dutch and Portuguese) related to different parts of Alor at different times. From these sources periods of friction between colonial and indigenous are highlighted. The four historyscapes in Alor show variations in historical experiences within short distances, but also commonalities found across a new story-geography.
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