Alor-Pantar languages: Origins and theoretical impact

Functional verbs datasets

These datasets were obtained through the use of video stimuli designed to study to study variation in the patterns of pronominal marking in four non-Austronesian languages of Alor and Pantar (Teiwa, Adang, Kamang, and Abui) of eastern Indonesia. We concentrated on the role of functional verbs in the Alor-Pantar languages, i.e. verbs with the basic meanings 'come', 'hold', 'take', 'be in', and 'be on', where we discovered that different related cognates in the languages lie at different points on a continuum from independent lexical verbs to clitic postpositions.

For further information on the results of the research see:

Brown, Dunstan & Sebastian Fedden. 2012. Functional verbs in the Alor-Pantar languages. Presented at the Dissemination workshop on Alor-Pantar languages, British Academy, London, 14 September 2012. [pdf]

Citation and use

The datasets are freely available for individuals to use for non-comerical purposes, providing they are cited using the citation method given below.

Abui dataset

Fedden, Sebastian & Dunstan Brown. 2010. Functional verbs in Alor-Pantar languages: Abui functional verbs dataset. University of Surrey. http://dx.doi.org/10.15126/SMG.25/3.1

Download the Abui data set [XLSX]

Adang dataset

Fedden, Sebastian & Dunstan Brown. 2010. Functional verbs in Alor-Pantar languages: Adang functional verbs dataset. University of Surrey. http://dx.doi.org/10.15126/SMG.25/3.2

Download the Adang data set [XLSX]

Teiwa dataset

Fedden, Sebastian & Dunstan Brown. 2010. Functional verbs in Alor-Pantar languages: Teiwa functional verbs dataset. University of Surrey. http://dx.doi.org/10.15126/SMG.25/3.3

Download the Teiwa data set [XLSX]