Alor-Pantar languages: origins and theoretical impact
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Surrey
Department Name: Languages and Translation Studies
Abstract
This project aims to further document and analyze the non-Austronesian languages of the Alor-Pantar archipelago of southeastern Indonesia. Until very recently these languages were among the least well-documented languages of Indonesia, and all of them are endangered.
The project focuses on:
I. Extended Documentation of spatial reference and numerical expressions.
II. Word Class Typology: the continuum between word classes and grammatical features; how morphosyntactic categories evolve; unusual morphosyntactic phenomena of the Alor-Pantar languages.
III. Linguistic Prehistory: quantitative evidence for the genetic position of the Alor-Pantar languages, based on bottom-up reconstruction to establish genetic subgroups and evaluate potential genetic relationships with languages of New Guinea.
The project focuses on:
I. Extended Documentation of spatial reference and numerical expressions.
II. Word Class Typology: the continuum between word classes and grammatical features; how morphosyntactic categories evolve; unusual morphosyntactic phenomena of the Alor-Pantar languages.
III. Linguistic Prehistory: quantitative evidence for the genetic position of the Alor-Pantar languages, based on bottom-up reconstruction to establish genetic subgroups and evaluate potential genetic relationships with languages of New Guinea.
People |
ORCID iD |
| Greville Corbett (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Fedden S
(2014)
The Alor-Pantar languages: history and typology
Fedden S
(2012)
Change in traditional numeral systems in Mian and other Trans New Guinea languages
in Language and Linguistics in Melanesia
Fedden S
(2013)
Reciprocal constructions in Mian
in Studies in Language
Fedden S
(2013)
Conditions on pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages
in Linguistics
Fedden S
(2011)
A Grammar of Mian: Volume 55
Fedden S
(2012)
Spatialization of time in mian.
in Frontiers in psychology
Fedden S
(2014)
Variation in pronominal indexing Lexical stipulation vs. referential properties in Alor-Pantar languages
in Studies in Language
| Description | Alor-Pantar languages: origins and theoretical impact (grant AH/H500251/1) The Alor-Pantar languages are a group of at least 20 endangered non-Austronesian ("Papuan") languages spoken on the islands Alor and Pantar in the eastern Indonesian province of Nusa Tenggara Timur. This AHRC project was part of a larger EuroBabel Collaborative Research Project (CRP), co-ordinated by the European Science Foundation. We worked with colleagues from Leiden University, the Netherlands, who investigated numerical systems and spatial reference in the Alor-Pantar languages, and colleagues from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, who worked on language prehistory and toponyms. When the Alor-Pantar CRP started three years ago relatively little was known about these languages. Documentation had only recently begun, and the theoretical linguistic community was largely unaware of the data. The CRP investigated the implications the Alor-Pantar data have for language classification, migration patterns, and morphosyntactic and semantic typology. In the Surrey subproject, we investigated the development of the different pronominal marking systems in the languages using a carefully created set of video stimuli, which allowed us to control for different factors. Key finding 1: While the forms of the argument-indexing prefixes are very similar in all Alor-Pantar languages the conditions under which arguments are indexed by a prefix on the verb are very different. We investigated the different impact of various semantic factors, such as affectedness, volitionality and animacy, on the patterns of pronominal indexing. For example, Teiwa, a language spoken on Pantar, indexes animate objects on the verb with a prefix, e.g., g-ayas [3SG-throw] 'throw to him/her', whereas inanimate objects are typically not indexed with a prefix. We used cutting edge psycholinguistic elicitation techniques. Starting from existing descriptions of the Alor-Pantar languages and the existing literature on argument realization and semantic alignment, the Surrey project developed a set of 42 video clips and a questionnaire, designed to elicit how various Alor-Pantar languages mark their arguments and the conditions on this marking (one vs. two participants in the event, animacy and volitionality). The video stimuli have been successfully used by the fieldworkers from the other two subprojects and by ourselves. Altogether we covered seven languages: Teiwa, Western Pantar, Adang, Abui, Kamang, Sawila, and Wersing. The results provided by the video elicitation and the questionnaire on pronominal marking are furthering our understanding of the conditions on argument marking both in the Alor-Pantar languages and in a cross-linguistic perspective. While the forms of the argument-indexing prefixes are very similar in all Alor-Pantar languages we found that the conditions under which arguments are indexed by a prefix are very different. There is massive variation in the indexing patterns even between closely related languages. That is, the forms have stayed the same but their uses in different languages vary dramatically. Key finding 2: There is a cross-linguistically relevant correlation between semantic alignment and the type of semantic factor involved. Following on from our investigation of the conditions which individual Alor-Pantar languages impose on how they realize arguments, which was done with the help of the video clips, we studied the distribution of these conditions more closely. We found a cross-linguistically relevant correlation between semantic alignment and the type of semantic factor that is involved. Factors like volitionality and affectedness, which describe a relationship between an event and a participant, play an important part in those languages with semantic alignment (Abui, Kamang), whereas animacy and arbitrary assignment of a verb to a particular class are more important in the syntactically aligned languages (Teiwa, Adang). These results inform current research on the role of referential hierarchies in argument marking as opposed to lexical stipulation. Key finding 3: While the agreement typology has clear extremes (i.e., anaphoric vs. grammatical agreement) the Alor-Pantar languages show the need to develop the middle ground of the typology (ambiguous agreement). We extended our work on pronominal marking patterns and applied the perspective of Canonical Typology to the question of what the Alor-Pantar languages can tell us about the standard typology of anaphoric, ambiguous, and grammatical agreement. While the extremes of the typology are clear, the middle ground occupied by ambiguous agreement has to be further articulated by appealing to the facts we find in the Alor-Pantar languages. This research plugs directly into the topical debate about the nature of agreement and its typological variation. Key finding 4: Cognates in the Alor-Pantar languages lie at different points on a continuum from independent lexical verbs to clitic postpositions. For this, we concentrated on the role of polyfunctional verbs in the Alor-Pantar languages, i.e., verbs with the basic meanings 'come', 'hold', 'take', 'be in', and 'be on', where we found that cognates in the languages lie at different points on a continuum from independent lexical verbs to clitic postpositions, a finding which is of significance for the typology of word classes. The success of the Alor-Pantar CRP lies not only in the results of the individual subprojects but in the continuing collaboration between the subprojects. The initial design of the video stimuli was subsequently improved, drawing on the local knowledge of our colleagues to make the clips adequate in the cultural context of the Alor-Pantar languages. The data collected in the field by means of the video stimuli helped refine our typology of pronominal marking patterns and the interpretations drawn from the analysis of these data led to further hypotheses which could then be tested in the field. Due to the collaborative nature of the Alor-Pantar CRP we contributed to the other subprojects, but we also gained from the insights of their work, allowing us to achieve more progress than we could have made alone. It is vital to have done this work now: the Alor-Pantar languages are severely endangered but still have sufficient vitality to provide additional supporting documentation without difficulty. The quality of Alor-Pantar language data is likely to decline significantly over the next two decades as language shift progresses. |
| Exploitation Route | Our findings can be used by typologists to refine their typologies of syntactic and semantic alignment systems and their typologies of the impact of semantic factors, such as animacy, volitionality and affectedness, in the encoding of participants in an event. Our findings also can be used to better describe and further the Alor-Pantar languages, all of which are severely endangered and need to be documented and described now. Our video stimuli can be used by linguists doing empirical research. All findings and results can be accessed at http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/projects/alor-pantar/ |
| Sectors | Education |
| URL | http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/projects/alor-pantar/ |
| Description | The Alor-Pantar project benefited greatly from a community-based approach to research. Fieldwork was carried out in individual communities on the islands Alor and Pantar. Numerous speakers of Alor-Pantar languages were trained in linguistic research methods and made valuable contributions to data collection and analysis. We also invited five language consultants to attend the International Conference of Austronesian Linguistics (ICAL12) in Bali/Indonesia in July 2012, to offer them the opportunity to experience an international linguistics conference and meet an international group of linguists working on languages of Indonesia. Our colleague Marian Klamer from the Leiden subproject gave a talk introducing our research to a general audience on the DOBES (Documentation of endangered languages) Workshop on "Potentials of Language Documentation: Methods, Analyses, and Utilization" at the Max PIanck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, 3-4 November 2011. The Alor-Pantar project produced trilingual dictionaries of the languages Kamang and Teiwa and a 127-item vocabulary for five languages (Adang, Abui, Teiwa, Kaera and Wersing). These were distributed to the local communities. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2010 |
| Sector | Education |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal |
| Description | Combining Gender and Classifiers in Natural Language |
| Amount | £327,633 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/K003194/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2013 |
| End | 08/2016 |
| Title | Conditions on pronominal marking - set of video stimuli for the elicitation of argument marking patterns |
| Description | We designed this set of 42 short video elicitation stimuli specifically to investigate the impact that various semantic factors have on the way event participants are encoded in the Alor-Pantar languages, Papuan languages of eastern Indonesia. Animacy is important in Teiwa, volitionality is important in Abui and telicity and the stative/active distinction were identified as major factors in the typological literature on systems in which the encoding of event participants depends on semantic factors. As our goal is to compare across related languages we werefaced with the problem of how to obtain comparable data. Translation-based elicitation brings with it the danger that the responses are heavily biased towards the constructions of the meta-language, and prompted elicitation using the target language brings with it, among other things, well known difficulties of determining exactly what the consultant is making a judgment about and the extent to which they are trying to accommodate the researcher. We therefore decided to choose video elicitation, as this obviates many of the problems associated with other techniques. The full set of video clips can be downloaded from: http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/projects/alor-pantar/pronominal-marking-video-stimuli/ |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2011 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The video stimuli were presented at the Essex JNU-Konstanz Workshop on Case and Elicitation Techniques at the University of Essex, Colchester, 13-14 June 2011. Although the video clips were designed with the argument-indexing typology of the Alor-Pantar languages in mind they can readily be used to elicit patterns of participant marking in languages which employ case and/or adpositions or a combination of argument indexing and case/adpositional marking. The set can be downloaded from the project website at: http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/projects/alor-pantar/pronominal-marking-video-stimuli/. |
| URL | http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/projects/alor-pantar/pronominal-marking-video-stimuli/ |
| Description | Alor Pantar languages |
| Organisation | Leiden University |
| Department | Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration through the EuroBABEL initiative |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration through the EuroBABEL initiative |
| Impact | Collective volume "The Alor-Pantar Languages" http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/22 |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Alor Pantar languages |
| Organisation | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration through the EuroBABEL initiative |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration through the EuroBABEL initiative |
| Impact | Collective volume "The Alor-Pantar Languages" http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/22 |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Alignment systems in the Alor-Pantar languages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Sebastian Fedden and Dunstan Brown: "Alignment systems in the Alor-Pantar languages". Presented at the Dissemination workshop on Alor-Pantar languages, British Academy, London, 14 September 2012. Notable interest in and discussion about the syntax of the Alor-Pantar languages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Alor-Pantar und Ok: zwei bedrohte Sprachfamilien aus Indonesien und Papua Neuguinea [Alor-Pantar and Ok: two endangered Papuan language families of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea] |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: This is an invited talk by Sebastian Fedden about the endangerment of the Papuan language families Alor-Pantar and Ok, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Ostasienstudien, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, 30 October 2012. Notable interest in and discussion about endangered indigenous languages of the Pacific. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Analysing gender and classifiers: The special case of Mian |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Fedden, Sebastian and Greville G. Corbett "Analysing gender and classifiers: The special case of Mian". Presented at the conference "Gender and classifiers: Cross-linguistic perspectives", University of Surrey, January 17, 2014. Notable interest in and discussion about co-occurring gender and classifiers in Mian. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.surrey.ac.uk/englishandlanguages/research/smg/researchprojects/combining_gender_and_class... |
| Description | Aspectual distinctions in Mian verb stems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Sebastian Fedden: "Aspectual distinctions in Mian verb stems". Presented at Les Décembrettes 8 - International Conference on Morphology, Bordeaux, December 6-7, 2013. Notable interest in and discussion about aspectual systems, especially the comparison of Slavonic with less known systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | http://w3.erss.univ-tlse2.fr:8080/index.jsp?perso=hathout&subURL=decembrettes2012/call_2012.html |
| Description | Aspectual stem distinctions in Mian |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Sebastian Fedden: "Aspectual stem distinctions in Mian". Presented at the South Eastern Morphology Meeting, University of Surrey, Guildford, January 25, 2013. Notable interest in and discussion about different types of encoding verb aspect in the languages of the world. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Between anaphoric and grammatical agreement: Multidimensional variation beyond closely related languages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Dunstan Brown and Sebastian Fedden: "Between anaphoric and grammatical agreement: Multidimensional variation beyond closely related languages". Presented at the departmental colloquium at the University of York, 17 October 2012. Notable interest in and discussion about differnt types of agreement and their relation to discourse. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Changes in Mian numerals and verbs through contact with Tok Pisin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Sebastian Fedden: "Changes in Mian numerals and verbs through contact with Tok Pisin". Presented at the Papuan Classification Conference: History, Contact and Classification of Papuan languages. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2-3 February 2012. Notable interest in and discussion about numeral and counting systems in languages of Papua New Guinea |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | http://wwwstaff.eva.mpg.de/~harald_hammarstroem/ |
| Description | Conditions on pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Sebastian Fedden: "Conditions on pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages". Invited talk at the University of Cologne, 2 February 2011. Notable interest in and discussion about semantic conditions in the coding of event participants in Alor-Pantar languages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Ditransitives in the Alor-Pantar languages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Sebastian Fedden and Dunstan Brown: "Ditransitives in the Alor-Pantar languages". Invited talk at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, 8 March 2011. Notable interest in and discussion about specific syntactic constructions in Alor-Pantar languages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Ditransitives in the Alor-Pantar languages (with specific reference to animacy in Teiwa) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Dunstan Brown and Sebastian Fedden: "Ditransitives in the Alor-Pantar languages". Presented at the Workshop on referential hierarchies in three-participant constructions. Lancaster University. 20-22 May 2011. Notable interest in and discussion about typologically unusual constructions in the Alor-Pantar languages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/events/referential_hierarchies/ |
| Description | Fedden, Sebastian "Multidimensional variation in person agreement: evidence from Alor-Pantar languages". Presented at the 10th Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT) 10 (15-18 August 2013), Leipzig, 15 August 2013. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Stimulating thinking increase in discussions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Fedden, Sebastian (with Dunstan Brown): "Multidimensional variation in person agreement: evidence from Alor-Pantar languages" at the EuroBabel Final Conference (23-26 August 2012), Leiden, 25 August 2012. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards increase in awareness |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Functional verbs in the Alor-Pantar languages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Dunstan Brown and Sebastian Fedden: "Functional verbs in the Alor-Pantar languages". Presented at the Dissemination workshop on Alor-Pantar languages, British Academy, London, 14 September 2012. Notable interest in and discussion about verbal morphology and adpositions in the Alor-Pantar languages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Gender and language: why it's unique and why it's not |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Greville G. Corbett: "Gender and language: why it's unique and why it's not". Keynote lecture at "Changing Habits of Speaking and Thinking"; Third Summer School of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network "Language, Gender and Cognition", Potsdam, 14-20 June 2012. Notable interest in and discussion about the connection between language and cognition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Genus und Klassifikatoren kombiniert: Mian und sein typologischer Kontext |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Corbett, Greville G. and Sebastian Fedden "Genus und Klassifikatoren kombiniert: Mian und sein typologischer Kontext". Presented at the conference "Genus, Klassifikation und Kategorisierung" (organized for Prof. David Zubin's 70th birthday), Münster (Germany), November 28-30, 2013. Notable interest in and discussion about the relationship between the morphosyntactic feature "gender" and the lexical means of classifiers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Investigating grammatical coding patterns using video elicitation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Sebastian Fedden: "Investigating grammatical coding patterns using video elicitation". Presented at the Workshop on Affectedness in connection with Fedden's consultancy for the project "Grammar Matrix Reloaded - Syntax and Semantics of Affectedness", Nanyang Technological University Singapore, June 17, 2014. Notable interest in and discussion about the use of video elicitation in linguistic research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Is gender special? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Greville G. Corbett: "Is gender special?" Keynote lecture at the Workshop "Exploring Grammatical Gender" within the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 9-12 February 2012. Notable interest in and discussion about gender as a key morphosyntactic feature |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | http://www.wu.ac.at/inst/roman/imm15/workshops.html |
| Description | Mian for typologists - the essentials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Fedden, Sebastian. "Mian for typologists - the essentials". Plenary talk (Georg von der Gabelentz Award) at the 10th Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT) 10, Leipzig, August 18, 2013. Notable interest in and discussion about fascinating properties of the Mian language from Papua New Guinea. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2013_ALT10/ |
| Description | Multidimensional variation in person agreement: evidence from Alor-Pantar languages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Fedden, Sebastian. "Multidimensional variation in person agreement: evidence from Alor-Pantar languages". Presented at the 10th Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT) 10, Leipzig, August 15-18, 2013. Notable interest in and discussion about multidimensional variation between selected Alor-Pantar languages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2013_ALT10/ |
| Description | Multiple alignment systems in a single family: evidence from Alor-Pantar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Sebastian Fedden and Dunstan Brown: "Multiple alignment systems in a single family: evidence from Alor-Pantar". Presented at the 6th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APPL 6), SOAS London, May 24-25, 2013. Notable interest in and discussion about alignment systems and syntactic variation in single language family. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | https://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/apll6-conference/ |
| Description | Pronominal indexing and referential hierarchies: Evidence from the Alor-Pantar languages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Dunstan Brown and Sebastian Fedden: "Pronominal indexing and referential hierarchies: Evidence from the Alor-Pantar languages". Presented at the Societas Linguistics Europaea (SLE) 44, Logroño, 8-11 September 2011. Notable interest in and discussion about the role of animacy and volitionality in the grammar of selected Alor-Pantar languages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://sle2011.cilap.es/ |
| Description | Pronominal indexing and referential hierarchies: Evidence from the Alor-Pantar languages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Sebastian Fedden and Dunstan Brown: "Pronominal indexing and referential hierarchies: Evidence from the Alor-Pantar languages". Presented at the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT) 9, Hong Kong, 21-24 July 2011. Notable interest in and discussion about the role on animacy and volitionality in the grammar of the Alor-Pantar languages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.linguistics.hku.hk/alt9/Home.html |
| Description | Pronominal marking in Alor-Pantar languages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Dunstan Brown and Sebastian Fedden: "Pronominal marking in Alor-Pantar languages". Presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) in Leeds, 1-4 September 2010. Notable interest in and discussion about event participant marking in the Alor-Pantar languages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| URL | http://www.lagb.org.uk/Resources/circulars/2001_leeds1.html |
| Description | Pronominal marking in Alor-Pantar languages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Sebastian Fedden and Dunstan Brown: "Pronominal marking in Alor-Pantar languages". Presented at the EuroBabel cross-CRP meeting on Referential hierarchy effects on the morphosyntax of verbal arguments in Leipzig, 28-29 August 2010. Notable interest in and discussion about the role of animacy and volitionality in the grammar of the Alor-Pantar languages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Sebastian Fedden: "Pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages". Invited talk at the Australian National University, Canberra, 16 March 2012. Notable interest in and discussion about participant marking in Alor-Pantar languages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages and diachronic alignment change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Sebastian Fedden and Dunstan Brown: "Pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages and diachronic alignment change". Invited talk at the Linguistic Colloquium, University of Zurich, 30 March 2012. Notable interest in and discussion about the historical development of participant marking and syntactic alignment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Pronominal marking: Multidimensional variation between closely related languages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Dunstan Brown and Sebastian Fedden: "Pronominal marking: Multidimensional variation between closely related languages". Presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) in Salford, 5-8 September 2012. Notable interest in and discussion about participant marking and crucial differences in the grammr of closely related languages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | http://www.lagb.org.uk/salford2012 |
| Description | The relation of the Greater Awyu and Ok languages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Van den Heuvel, Wilco and Sebastian Fedden. The relation of the Greater Awyu and Ok languages. At the 6th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL 6) at SOAS London, 24-25 May 2013. Notable interest in and discussion about questions of genealogical relatedness of languages in New Guinea. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | https://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/apll6-conference/ |
| Description | Understanding linguistic complexity: Morphology, Meaning and Mian |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Brown, Dunstan. Understanding linguistic complexity: Morphology, Meaning and Mian. Talk given at the York Talks 'Shining a light on inspiring research', University of York, Wednesday 8 January 2014. Notable interest in and discussion about the complexity of categorization in the Mian language. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Variation in pronominal indexing in the Alor-Pantar languages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Sebastian Fedden: "Variation in pronominal indexing in the Alor-Pantar languages". Presented at the Workshop on Affectedness in connection with Fedden's consultancy for the project "Grammar Matrix Reloaded - Syntax and Semantics of Affectedness", Nanyang Technological University Singapore, June 20, 2014. Notable interest in and discussion about the results which can be achieved by using video elicitation in linguistic research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Video Elicitation of Pronominal Marking in the Alor-Pantar Languages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RESULTS: The presentation led to useful interaction and refinement of ideas. DETAILS: Sebastian Fedden and Dunstan Brown: "Video Elicitation of Pronominal Marking in the Alor-Pantar Languages". Presented at the Essex JNU-Konstanz Workshop on Case and Elicitation Techniques, University of Essex, Colchester, 13-14 June 2011. Notable interest in and discussion about the use of video clips as stimuli in psycholinguistic experiments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |