Dr. A.T.P.G. (Aone) van Engelenhoven

Position:
  • Lecturer
Expertise:
  • Southeast Asian linguistics, especially Austronesian


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2072
E-Mail: a.van.engelenhoven@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, SAS Indonesie
Office Address: Johan Huizingagebouw
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden
Room number 0.11E
Personal Homepage: www.lucl.leidenuniv.nl/​index.php3?m=28


Research

His main research interests are descriptive and comparative linguistics (especially deixis and language contact) and the relation between language and meaning (especially in grammar  and in oral traditions). His descriptive linguistic research focuses on East Indonesia and East Timor, and on language maintenance and language behaviour in the Moluccan community in the Netherlands . His oral traditions research focuses on lexical parallelism, singing and story-telling.

See the Fataluku Language Project

Publications

  • 2006: ‘Ita-nia nasaun oin-ida, ita-nia dalen sira oin-seluk , « Our Nation is One,Our Languages Are Different ». Language Policy in East Timor’. In Paulo Castro Seixas and Aone van Engelenhoven (eds). Diversidade Cultural na Construção da Nação e do Estado em Timor-Leste, Porto: Publicações UFP.
  • 2005: (together with Catharina Williams-van Klinken) ‘Tetun and Leti’. In Karl A. Adelaar and Nikolaus Himmelmann (eds). The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, Routledge Language Family Series, London: Routlegde, pp. 735-768.
  • 2004: Leti, a language of Southwest Maluku, VKI 221, Leiden : KITLV Press.
  • 2003: ‘Language endangerment in Indonesia : the incipient obsolescence and acute death of Teun, Nila and Serua (Central and Southwest Maluku ), in: Mark Janse and Sijmen Tol (eds), Language Death and Language Maintenance: Theoretical, Historical and Descriptive Approaches, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 240, Amsterdam : Benjamins, pp. 49-80.
  • 2002: ‘Concealment, Maintenance and Renaissance: language and ethnicity in the Moluccan community in the Netherlands ’, in: David Bradley and Maya Bradley (eds) Language Maintenance for Endangered Languages: an active approach, London : Curzon Press, pp. 272-309.

Teaching activities

BA courses in 2007 - 2008
1. Intensief Indonesisch [Intensive Course of Indonesian]
2. Grammatica Indonesisch 1 & 2 [Indonesian Grammar 1 and 2]
3. Taal en cultuur in Zuidoost Azië [Language and Culture in Southeast Asia]
4. Austronesische taalkunde [Austronesian linguistics]

MA courses in 2007 - 2008
1. Minority Languages in Indonesia
2. Semantics and grammar in Indonesian
3. Advanced Indonesian Text Analysis1
4. Languages in Context  

Subsidary Courses in 2007 - 2008  
1. Maori 2
2. Balinese
3. Leti 5

Last Modified: 22-07-2010