Project Components
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Exploring the difference between linguistic borrowing and inheritance...
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Topic |
Project Component |
Expected Outcome |
Qualitative study of cultural contact |
- Scenarios for dispersals, migrations and contacts between populations within and across the region. - Articles in Oceanic Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Journal of Language Contact, Diachronica. - Monograph Reconstructing history through language in the Lesser Sunda Islands. |
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Case studies of contact-induced change |
- Reconstruction of the origins of words and grammatical structures in Abui, Alorese and Lamaholot. - Refined criteria for contact-induced transfer in social situations that vary in intensity of contact, direction of influence, language status, and time-depth. - Two PhD theses: (i) Indonesian influence in Abui; (ii) The history of Lamaholot. - Articles on contact-induced changes in the lexicon and grammar of Alorese, and on the role of parents in the transfer of Alorese to the next generation. |
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Quantitative study of cultural and language contact |
- Create and test scenarios for ancestral culture, dispersals, and linguistic history, using quantitative data on contact in culture and language. - Various articles (by postdoc or multiple team members). |