5. Abui

Saad, George

doi:10.1515/9781501511158-005

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“…Children grow up overhearing Abui from their older peers, but only really become active speakers during or after adolescence. This phenomenon has only recently been described but appears to be much more widespread in Indonesia and Melanesia (Anderbeck 2015;Saad 2020a;Peddie 2021).…”

Section: Sociolinguistic Settingmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Abui is a Timor-Alor-Pantar (Papuan) language spoken by around 17,000 people central and west-central Alor, eastern Indonesia (Kratochvíl 2007); see Figure 11.1. It is the largest indigenous language spoken on the Alor archipelago and also the earliest and most well-described (Du Bois 1944;Nicolspeyer 1940;Stokhof 1984;Kratochvíl 2007;Kratochvíl and Delpada 2008;Kratochvíl 2011;2014;Saad 2020a). The Abui language, and especially the Abui spoken in the village of Takalelang, is under threat from the regional lingua franca, Alor Malay, and to a lesser extent the national lingua franca, Indonesian.…”

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The Effects of Language Contact on Lexical Semantics: The Case of Abui

Saad¹

2023

Traces of Contact in the Lexicon

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the effects of language contact on lexical semantics 393 language in a language contact scenario, may also accelerate this process. If the dominant (donor) language uses one word to express what the endangered (recipient) language traditionally expressed as two or more words, then contact is more likely to result in the endangered language favoring one word and dropping the other. This has been shown by countless bilingualism and heritage language studies (

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confidence: 99%

The Effects of Language Contact on Lexical Semantics: The Case of Abui

Saad¹

2023

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confidence: 96%

“…Abui is a Timor-Alor-Pantar (Papuan) language spoken by around 17,000 people central and west-central Alor, eastern Indonesia (Kratochvíl 2007); see Figure 11.1. It is the largest indigenous language spoken on the Alor archipelago and also the earliest and most well-described (Du Bois 1944;Nicolspeyer 1940;Stokhof 1984;Kratochvíl 2007;Kratochvíl and Delpada 2008;Kratochvíl 2011;Saad 2020a). The Abui language, and especially the Abui spoken in the village of Takalelang, is under threat from the regional lingua franca, Alor Malay, and to a lesser extent the national lingua franca, Indonesian.…”

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confidence: 99%

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2023

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Reduplication in Abui: A case of pattern extension

Klamer

Saad

2020

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This paper studies the effect of ongoing contact on the Abui reduplication system. Abui, a Papuan indigenous minority language of eastern Indonesia, has been in contact with the regional lingua franca, Alor Malay (Austronesian), for around 50–60 years. Throughout this period, contact with Alor Malay has affected different age groups in different ways across various levels of grammar. Here we compare Abui reduplication across four age groups: (pre)adolescents, young adults, adults, and elders, and show how the function and distribution of reduplication in the Abui spoken by younger speakers is affected by a combination of morphological PAT borrowing and lexical borrowing from Alor Malay. The changing patterns are first applied to the domain in which the two languages overlap: existing Abui verb reduplications become more Alor Malay-like with respect to their function, form, and productivity. The borrowing of an additional function of reduplication is analyzed as a type of complexification in Abui, while at the same time, Abui reduplication itself is demonstrated to also show simplification in terms of form. We argue that this change is induced by decades of stable bilingualism, and is further enhanced by the fact that reduplication is a universal morphological operation and can emerge spontaneously in language contact situations. Thus, the emerging trends reported here are explained by both borrowing from Alor Malay as well as incomplete acquisition of Abui.

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5. Abui

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The Effects of Language Contact on Lexical Semantics: The Case of Abui

The Effects of Language Contact on Lexical Semantics: The Case of Abui

Traces of Contact in the Lexicon

Reduplication in Abui: A case of pattern extension

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