Individual projects

: Extended Documentation; The Extended Documentation project (Leiden University, PI Marian Klamer) has as its overall aim to collect additional documentation on the domains that are particularly interesting in the AP languages, and have not yet been studied in depth. The following phenomena will be studied; Read more

: Word Class Typology; The Word Class Typology project (carried out by members of the Surrey Morphology Group) combines the investigation of grammatical categories in a broad sample of languages with the use of explicit formal and statistical frameworks for the expression of typological and theoretical generalizations. Two phenomena in the Alor-Pantar languages are particularly interesting for us:; Read more

: Linguistic Prehistory; The Alor-Pantar languages represent one of only two groups of non-Austronesian languages in Indonesia outside of the island of New Guinea; the remaining languages of Indonesia belong to the Austronesian family. A comparison of pronouns suggests a genetic relationship between the Alor-Pantar languages and New Guinea languages located some 1000 km distant. The Linguistic History project (U of Alaska Fairbanks, PI Gary Holton) will bring new and recently-collected data to bear on the question of the linguistic origins and ultimate genetic relationships of the Alor-Pantar languages.; Read more