Alor-Pantar languages: Origins and theoretical impact

Outputs

Publications

Fedden, S. and D. Brown (accepted). Participant marking: video elicitation and corpus study. In M. Klamer and A. Schapper (eds.), The Alor-Pantar Languages: Origins and Theoretical Impact. Language Science Press. [to appear in May 2014]

Fedden, S., D. Brown, F. Kratochvíl, L. C. Robinson and A. Schapper. 2014. Variation in pronominal indexing: Lexical stipulation vs. referential properties in the Alor-Pantar languages. Studies in Language 38(1): 44-79.

Fedden, Sebastian. 2013. Reciprocals in Mian. Studies in Language. 37(1). 58-93.

Fedden, Sebastian, Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett, Marian Klamer, Gary Holton, Laura C. Robinson and Antoinette Schapper. 2013. Conditions on pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages. Linguistics 51(1). 33 – 74.

Fedden, Sebastian. 2012. Origin of switch-reference markers in Mian. In Volker Gast and Holger Diessel (eds.), Clause combining in cross-linguistic perspective. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Fedden, Sebastian. 2012. Change in traditional numeral systems in Mian and other Trans New Guinea languages. In Harald Hammarström and Wilco van den Heuvel (eds.), On the history, contact and classification of Papuan languages. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia. Special Issue 2012 (part 1), 1-22.

Fedden, Sebastian and Lera Boroditsky. 2012. Spatialization of time in Mian. Front. Psychology 3:485. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00485

Adang, Marlon, Benedictus Delpada, Sebastian Fedden, Marian Klamer, Hans Retebana, Laura Robinson, Lorens Titing and Marianus Wa’ang. 2012. Daftar Kosokata Bahasa Adang, Abui, Teiwa, Kaera, dan Wersing [A vocabulary of the languages Adang, Abui, Teiwa, Kaera, and Wersing]. Ms. Denpasar (Bali), Indonesia.

Fedden, Sebastian. 2011. A grammar of Mian. (Mouton Grammar Library 55.) Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Fedden, Sebastian, Dunstan Brown and Greville G. Corbett. 2010. Conditions on pronominal marking: A set of 42 video stimuli for field elicitation. Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey.

Conference presentations

Sebastian Fedden: “Variation in pronominal indexing in the Alor-Pantar languages”. Paper 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.

Sebasian Fedden: “Investigating grammatical coding patterns using video elicitation”. Paper 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.

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.

Sebastian Fedden: “Aspectual stem distinctions in Mian”. Presented at the South Eastern Morphology Meeting, University of Surrey, Guildford, January, 25 2013.

Sebastian Fedden: “Aspectual distinctions in Mian verb stems”. Presented at Les Décembrettes 8 - International Conference on Morphology, Bordeaux, December 6-7, 2013.

Sebastian Fedden: “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]. Invited talk at the Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Ostasienstudien, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, 30 October 2012.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Greville G. Corbett and Sebastian Fedden: “Typological perspectives on number”. Keynote lecture at the workshop “Number in East Nusantara”; 12th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (12-ICAL). Udayana University, Bali-Indonesia, 2-6 June 2012.

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.

Sebastian Fedden: “Pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages”. Invited talk at the Australian National University, Canberra, 16 March 2012.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dunstan Brown and Sebastian Fedden: “Ditransitives in the Alor-Pantar languages (with specific reference to animacy in Teiwa)”. Presented at the Workshop on referential hierarchies in three-participant constructions. Lancaster University. 20-22 May 2011.

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.

Sebastian Fedden and Dunstan Brown: “Conditions on pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages”. Invited talk at the University of Cologne, 2 February 2011.

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.

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.