TY - CHAP
T1 - The relatedness of Timor-Kisar and Alor-Pantar languages; A preliminary demonstration
AU - Schapper, Antoinette
AU - van Engelenhoven, Aone
AU - Huber, Juliette
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The Papuan languages of Timor, Alor, Pantar and Kisar have long been thought
to be members of a single family. However, their relatedness has not yet been
established through the rigorous application of the comparative method. Recent
historical work has shown the relatedness of the languages of Alor and Pantar on
the one hand (Holton et al. 2012), and those of Timor and Kisar on the other (Schapper, Huber & van Engelenhoven 2012a). In this chapter, we present a preliminary demonstration of the relatedness of the Timor-Alor-Pantar family based on a comparison of these two reconstructions. We identify a number of regular consonant correspondences across cognate vocabulary between the two groups and reconstruct a list of 89 proto-TAP roots.
AB - The Papuan languages of Timor, Alor, Pantar and Kisar have long been thought
to be members of a single family. However, their relatedness has not yet been
established through the rigorous application of the comparative method. Recent
historical work has shown the relatedness of the languages of Alor and Pantar on
the one hand (Holton et al. 2012), and those of Timor and Kisar on the other (Schapper, Huber & van Engelenhoven 2012a). In this chapter, we present a preliminary demonstration of the relatedness of the Timor-Alor-Pantar family based on a comparison of these two reconstructions. We identify a number of regular consonant correspondences across cognate vocabulary between the two groups and reconstruct a list of 89 proto-TAP roots.
UR - http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/22
U2 - 10.17169/FUDOCS_document_000000020993
DO - 10.17169/FUDOCS_document_000000020993
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-3-944675-48-0
T3 - Studies in Diversity Linguistics
SP - 99
EP - 154
BT - The Alor-Pantar languages
A2 - Klamer, Marian
PB - Language Science Press
CY - Berlin
ER -