Dissemination workshop Alor-Pantar languages, British Academy, London, 14 September 2012

This is a dissemination workshop which concentrates on topics in the Alor-Pantar languages, a group of about 20 Papuan languages spoken on several islands in eastern Indonesia. We present results on internal and external genealogical relations, spatial language and plural words, and on the typology of alignment systems in the Alor-Pantar languages. The work is supported under the European Science Foundation’s EuroBABEL programme (project ‘Alor-Pantar languages: origin and theoretical impact’). Funding comes from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) under grant AH/H500251/1, the National Science Foundation (US) under BCS Grant No. 0936887, and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). We thank these funding bodies for their support.

Would anyone who is interested in attending please contact Dr Sebastian Fedden (s.fedden@surrey.ac.uk). Registration is free. If you are interested you are encouraged to register early.

Programme: Dissemination workshop Alor-Pantar languages, British Academy, London, 14 September 2012

All talks in this workshop are about various topics in the Alor-Pantar languages of eastern Indonesia.

9.30-10.00       Introduction                                                    

Gary Holton and Marian Klamer

10.00-10.45     Internal and wider relations of the (Timor-)Alor-Pantar family          

Laura Robinson

10.45-11.15     Coffee break

11.15-12.00     Landscape and language                                 

                        Gary Holton

12.00-12.45     Alignment systems                  

Sebastian Fedden and Dunstan Brown

12.45-13.30     Lunch

13.30-14.15     Functional verbs                                              

Dunstan Brown and Sebastian Fedden

14.15-15.00     Plural words                                                    

Antoinette Schapper and Marian Klamer

15.00-15.45     Use of elevation terms talking about place                                                      

Antoinette Schapper

Venue: The British Academy (http://www.britac.ac.uk/)

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