The Historical Relations of the Papuan Languages of Alor and Pantar

Holton, Gary; Klamer, Marian; Kratochvíl, František; Robinson, Laura; Schapper, Antoinette

doi:10.1353/ol.2012.0001

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“…On Alor, Alorese is spoken in close proximity to Adang; in the northern part of Pantar, it is spoken next to Blagar, Kroku, Teiwa, and Kaera, and in the central part of Pantar next to Sar, Deing, and Western Pantar (see map 1). These Papuan languages all belong to a single language family, the Timor-Alor-Pantar family (Holton et al 2012).…”

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The Plural Word hire in Alorese: Contact-Induced Change from Neighboring Alor-Pantar Languages

Moro¹

2018

Oceanic Linguistics

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This article discusses the plural word hire in Alorese, an Austronesian language spoken on the islands of Alor and Pantar, in eastern Indonesia. Following the methodological requisites for contact-induced change, I claim that the plural word hire emerged through contact with Papuan Alor-Pantar languages, because (i) Alorese was and still is spoken in close contact with Alor-Pantar languages; (ii) Alorese and the neighboring Alor-Pantar languages share the presence of a plural word, and their plural words have similar syntactic and semantic properties; (iii) Alor-Pantar languages had plural words before they came into contact with Alorese; and (iv) Alorese did not have the plural word hire before it came into contact with Alor-Pantar languages. The innovation of hire is a case of contact-induced grammaticalization, whereby the form is inherited and developed from an original third person plural pronoun going back to Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *si-ida, while the function of the plural word is borrowed from the neighboring Alor-Pantar languages.

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Section: Alorese: Geography and Genealogymentioning

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The Plural Word hire in Alorese: Contact-Induced Change from Neighboring Alor-Pantar Languages

Moro¹

2018

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“…In this table, the major reflexes of Proto-Indo-European stops in 11 languages representing the oldest attestations and major branches of Indo-European, are listed. This table is a very typical example for the way in which scholars discuss, propose, and present correspondence patterns in linguistic reconstruction (Brown et al, 2011;Holton et al, 2012;Jacques, 2017;Beekes, 1995). The shortcomings of this representation become immediately transparent.…”

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Automatic Inference of Sound Correspondence Patterns Across Multiple Languages

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2018

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Johann-Mattis List 2018Sound correspondence patterns play a crucial role for linguistic reconstruction. Linguists use them to prove language relationship, to reconstruct proto-forms, and for classical phylogenetic reconstruction based on shared innovations.Cognate words which fail to conform with expected patterns can further point to various kinds of exceptions in sound change, such as analogy or assimilation of frequent words. Here we present an automatic method for the inference of sound correspondence patterns across multiple languages based on a network approach. The core idea is to represent all columns in aligned cognate sets as nodes in a network with edges representing the degree of compatibility between the nodes. The task of inferring all compatible correspondence sets can then be handled as the well-known minimum clique cover problem in graph theory, which essentially seeks to split the graph into the smallest number of cliques in which each node is represented by exactly one clique. The resulting partitions represent all correspondence patterns which can be inferred for a given dataset. By excluding those patterns which occur in only a few cognate sets, the core of regularly recurring sound correspondences can be inferred. Based on this idea, the paper presents a method for automatic correspondence pattern recognition, which is implemented as part of a Python library which supplements the paper. To illustrate the usefulness of the method, we present how the inferred patterns can be used to predict words that have not been observed before.

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“…Five datasets relevant to this paper can be found online. Tese datasets derive from lexical data collected by the authors and their colleagues and first described in Holton et al (2012). Reconstructions are those in Holton et al (2012), augmented by additional analysis based on the work of the current authors.…”

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“…Tese datasets derive from lexical data collected by the authors and their colleagues and first described in Holton et al (2012). Reconstructions are those in Holton et al (2012), augmented by additional analysis based on the work of the current authors. See http://dx.doi.org./10.1163/22105832-20120201; http://booksandjournals .brillonline.com/content/22105832/2/2 (click on tab Supplements).…”

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“…Second, unlike lexicostatistical models which rely on subjective lexical similarity judgments, we use the comparative method to identify cognate sets, as in Gray et al (2010). All lexical items counted as cognates in our database are rigorously vetted using the known sound correspondences from Holton et al (2012), hereafer H2012. In this way, we have attempted to mitigate the subjectivity that was pervasive in lexicostatistics.…”

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Internal Classification of the Alor-Pantar Language Family Using Computational Methods Applied to the Lexicon

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2012

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The non-Austronesian languages of Alor and Pantar in eastern Indonesia have been shown to be genetically related using the comparative method, but the identified phonological innovations are typologically common and do not delineate neat subgroups. We apply computational methods to recently collected lexical data and are able to identify subgroups based on the lexicon. Crucially, the lexical data are coded for cognacy based on identified phonological innovations. This methodology can succeed even where phonological innovations themselves fail to identify subgroups, showing that computational methods using lexical data can be a powerful tool supplementing the comparative method.

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The Historical Relations of the Papuan Languages of Alor and Pantar

Cited by 33 publications

References 29 publications

The Plural Word hire in Alorese: Contact-Induced Change from Neighboring Alor-Pantar Languages

The Plural Word hire in Alorese: Contact-Induced Change from Neighboring Alor-Pantar Languages

Automatic Inference of Sound Correspondence Patterns Across Multiple Languages

Internal Classification of the Alor-Pantar Language Family Using Computational Methods Applied to the Lexicon

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