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Alor-Pantar Languages: Origins and Theoretical Impact

Alor-Pantar Languages: Origins and Theoretical Impact
阿洛-潘塔语言:起源和理论影响
批准号:
0936887
负责人:
Gary Holton
金额:
$39.73万
依托单位国家:
美国
项目类别:
Standard Grant
财政年份:
2009
资助国家:
美国
项目状态:
已结题
起止时间:
2009-08-15 至 2017-01-31

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This research project, directed by PI Gary Holton, is the US portion of a larger international collaboration that was conceived under the European Science Foundation's EUROCORES Programme, EuroBABEL. The full EuroBABEL project is a collaboration of researchers from three countries, including the US, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. This particular project focuses on the linguistic prehistory of the non-Austronesian languages the of Alor-Pantar archipelago of southeastern Indonesia. 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. Until very recently the 15-20 Alor-Pantar languages have remained among the least well-documented languages of Indonesia, but a surge in field work efforts over the past decade has resulted in a wealth of new language data. This project 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.A major component of the analysis will be the reconstruction of the ancestral Proto Alor-Pantar language using the comparative method. To accomplish this the project will work closely with ESF partners to assemble recently-collected lexical and grammatical documentation and will supplement these with surveys of still-undocumented Alor-Pantar languages. These data will be used to infer sound changes which have occurred in the history of the languages. Evidence from sound changes will in turn allow the researchers to establish genetic subgroups and to evaluate potential genetic relationships with the languages of New Guinea.An additional component of the analysis is the study of placenames, which represent one of the most highly endangered and least documented domain of linguistic knowledge in the Alor-Pantar languages. The structure and distribution of placenames provide insight into prehistory, often reflecting pre-historic settlement patterns. Placenames also provide indirect evidence of non-linguistic history, including past climate changes, since naming practices reflect human interaction with the environment at a fixed point in time. The GIS (geographic information systems) database compiled by this project will facilitate future inter-disciplinary investigations of population migrations and environmental changes and their relationships to language change.
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Informed consent among analog people in a digital world
数字世界中模拟人们的知情同意
DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2009.11.002
发表时间: 2010
期刊: Language & Communication
影响因子: 1.5
作者: [Robinson, Laura C.]
通讯作者: Robinson, Laura C.
The Historical Relations of the Papuan Languages of Alor and Pantar
巴布亚语阿洛尔语和潘塔尔语的历史关系
DOI: 10.1353/ol.2012.0001
发表时间: 2012
期刊: Oceanic Linguistics
影响因子: 0.9
作者: [Holton, Gary, Klamer, Marian, Kratochvíl, František, Robinson, Laura C., Schapper, Antoinette]
通讯作者: Schapper, Antoinette
The linguistic position of the Timor-Alor-Pantar languages
帝汶-阿罗-潘塔尔语的语言地位
DOI: --
发表时间: 2014
期刊: Alor Pantar languages: History and Typology
影响因子: --
作者: [Holton, Gary, Robinson, Laura C.]
通讯作者: Robinson, Laura C.
DOI: 10.1163/22105832-20120201
发表时间: 2012-01-01
期刊: LANGUAGE DYNAMICS AND CHANGE
影响因子: 0.7
作者: [Robinson, Laura C., Holton, Gary]
通讯作者: Holton, Gary
Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Multi-Modal Study of Gesture in a Spatial Language
  • 批准号:
    2025315
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
  • 资助金额:
    $1.88万
  • 财政年份:
    2020
  • 负责人:
    Gary Holton
  • 依托单位:
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Syntactic Description of a Language with Unique Patterns of Symmetrical Voice Alternations
  • 批准号:
    1926376
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
  • 资助金额:
    $1.86万
  • 财政年份:
    2019
  • 负责人:
    Gary Holton
  • 依托单位:
DDRIG: Northern Dene Astronomy
Conference on Minority Language Documentation for Community Language Practitioners
  • 批准号:
    1761223
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
  • 资助金额:
    $2.37万
  • 财政年份:
    2018
  • 负责人:
    Gary Holton
  • 依托单位:
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