Conditions on pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages

Fedden, Sebastian; Brown, Dunstan; Corbett, Greville G.; Holton, Gary; Klamer, Marian; Robinson, Laura; Schapper, Antoinette

doi:10.1515/ling-2013-0002

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“…Fedden et al (2013) show that the frequency of S's being indexed on the verb was highest for nonvolitional animate S's. This means that the role of animacy in Abui is very different from what we find in Teiwa (see 4.4 below), where the effect of animacy is seen in transitive verbs in which objects that are indexed with a prefix are typically animate.…”

Section: Animacy In Abui and Kamangmentioning

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“…Schapper, field notes). For all languages we used experimental (see Fedden et al 2013), corpus, and elicited data. In the following we deal with alignment in our sample languages and then look at the number of prefix series ( §3).…”

Section: Alignmentmentioning

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“…For example, Adang (Haan 2001;Robinson and Haan, to appear) has three series. Adang has syntactic alignment like Teiwa (i.e.…”

Section: Number Of Person Prefix Seriesmentioning

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“…Given that only approximately 22% of transitive verbs allow prefixation (in absolute numbers this is 49 of 224 transitive verbs in our corpus), it is worth checking whether object indexing in Teiwa is at all productive. Fedden et al (2013) present a corpus search of transitive verb hapaxes, inspired by the quantitative method in Baayen (1992) and later papers. The Teiwa corpus (Klamer, n.d.) consists of approximately 11,000 words of spontaneous text.…”

Section: Animacy and Verb Classes In Teiwamentioning

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“…Teiwa, on the other hand, has accusative syntactic alignment. Furthermore, in terms of the effects on pronominal marking, Abui and Kamang are multifactorial, with volitionality, affectedness and, marginally, animacy playing a role, while animacy in Teiwa constitutes the main factor according to which the verb classes in the language are defined (Fedden et al 2013). Finally, the Alor languages Abui and Kamang have multiple prefix series, five and six, respectively, while the Pantar language Teiwa has only one.…”

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We examine the role of referential properties and lexical stipulation in three closely related languages of eastern Indonesia, the Alor-Pantar languages Abui, Kamang, and Teiwa. Our focus is on the continuum along which event properties (e.g. volitionality, affectedness) are highly important at one extreme or play virtually no role at the other. These languages occupy different points along this continuum. In Abui, event semantics play the greatest role, while in Teiwa they play the smallest role (the lexical property animacy being dominant in the formation of verb classes). Kamang occupies an intermediate position. Teiwa has conventionalised the relation between a verb and its class along the lines of animacy so that classes become associated with the animacy value of the objects with which the verbs in a given class typically occur. Paying attention to a lexical property like animacy, in contrast with event properties, has meant greater potential for arbitrary classes to emerge.

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Section: Animacy In Abui and Kamangmentioning

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Section: Alignmentmentioning

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“…For example, Adang (Haan 2001;Robinson and Haan, to appear) has three series. Adang has syntactic alignment like Teiwa (i.e.…”

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Subgrouping the Sogeram languages

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2019

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Historical Glottometry is a method, recently proposed by Kalyan and François (François 2014; Kalyan & François 2018), for analyzing and representing the relationships among sister languages in a language family. We present a glottometric analysis of the Sogeram language family of Papua New Guinea and, in the process, provide an evaluation of the method. We focus on three topics that we regard as problematic: how to handle the higher incidence of cross-cutting isoglosses in the Sogeram data; how best to handle lexical innovations; and what to do when the data do not allow the analyst to be sure whether a given language underwent a given innovation or not. For each topic we compare different ways of coding and calculating the data and suggest the best way forward. We conclude by proposing changes to the way glottometric data are coded and calculated and the way glottometric results are visualized. We also discuss how to incorporate Historical Glottometry into an effective historical-linguistic research workflow.

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Argument indexing in Kamang

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Kamang (Alor-Pantar, non-Austronesian/Papuan) has a typologically unusual system of argument indexing, in which the S or P argument can be indexed on the verb by one of several prefix paradigms. Some verbs always show indexing, while others exhibit differential argument indexing (DAI). In DAI, the use of a particular prefix paradigm or zero marking depends on different (combinations of) factors. We investigate the effects of argument role (S, P), independent argument realisation, the animacy and topicality of the indexed argument, and lexical stipulation. We perform a quantitative analysis of these factors for the first time in Kamang discourse, drawing on an annotated corpus of spoken Kamang. A complex picture emerges in which Kamang argument indexing is best viewed not as a single system, but as multiple subsystems for which different factors are relevant in a given context, and which do not operate on all verbs or all indexing strategies equally.

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Conditions on pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages

Abstract: We examine the varying role of conditions on grammatical relation marking (namely animacy and volitionality)

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Variation in pronominal indexing

Variation in pronominal indexing

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