This paper reviews the “standard” view of the Austronesian language family tree in
connection with the archeological “farming/language dispersal” hypothesis of Neolithic …

Previous research indicates that human genetic diversity in Wallacea—islands in present-
day Eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste that were never part of the Sunda or Sahul …

This paper refines the subgroupings of the Timor-Alor-Pantar (tap) family of Papuan
languages, using a systematic Bayesian phylogenetics study. While recent work indicates …

Traces of language contact; The Flores-Lembata languages in eastern Indonesia Page 1
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Volume 21 Number 1 Panji stories I Article …

This paper investigates variation in possessive marking in Abui, a language spoken in a
minority bilingual community in eastern Indonesia. Abui youngsters grow up acquiring both …

This study analyzes the numeral systems of Austronesian and Papuan languages,
investigating their areal distribution and considering their most likely ancestral states. The …

Alorese is a prime example of a morphologically isolating language. This paper traces the
process of morphological simplification it has undergone by addressing the following …

While there is overall consensus that narratives obtained by means of visual stimuli contain
less natural language than free narratives, it has been less clear how the naturalness of a …

This paper is a typological survey of inalienable possessive constructions in the linguistic
area of Wallacea and its surrounds. In a sample of 189 Austronesian and non-Austronesian …

Eastern Indonesia, an area of linguistic diversity and contact, is characterised
bythepresenceof Austronesianlanguagesandlanguagesof non-Austronesian ('Papuan') …