Papuan-Austronesian Language Contact in Alor Pantar: Alorese Grammar in Areal Perspective (original) (raw)

Abstract

This paper focusses on the role of language contact in the development of the grammar of Alorese (Bahasa Alor; Klamer forthcoming). Surrounded by Non-Austronesian languages, Alorese is the only indigenous Austronesian language spoken on the islands of Alor and Pantar in eastern Indonesia. As a case study of language contact between Papuan and Austronesian languages, the paper focuses on those morphological and syntactic features of Alorese that diverge from proto (Central) Malayo Polynesian grammatical features, that is, could not have been inherited. The hypothesis is that these features are not independent developments, but diffused from Non-Austronesian languages. An obvious scenario would be that diffusion took place through contact between Alorese and its present-day Non-Austronesian neighbours on Alor and Pantar. This is the view expressed in Klamer (2007). In the first section of the paper I test that scenario. I compare the non-p(C)MP features of Alorese with its closest gen...

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