Plural number words in Alor-Pantar languages

Antoinette Schapper; Marian Klamer; Greville Corbett

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Plural number words in Alor-Pantar languages

Antoinette Schapper, Marian Klamer, Greville Corbett

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In this chapter, we investigate the variation in form, syntax and semantics of the
plural words found across the Alor-Pantar languages. We study five AP languages:
Western Pantar, Teiwa, Abui, Kamang and Wersing. We show that plural words in
Alor-Pantar family are diachronically instable: although proto-Alor-Pantar had a
plural number word *non, many AP languages have innovated new plural words.
Plural words in these languages exhibit not only a wide variety of different syntactic
properties but also variable semantics, thus likening them more to the range
exhibited by affixal plural number than previously recognized.

Originele taal-2	Engels
Titel	The Alor-Pantar languages
Subtitel	History and typology
Redacteuren	Marian Klamer
Plaats van productie	Berlin
Uitgeverij	Language Science Press
Pagina's	375-412
ISBN van geprinte versie	978-3-944675-48-0
DOI's	https://doi.org/10.17169/FUDOCS_document_000000020993
Status	Gepubliceerd - 2014

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Naam	Studies in Diversity Linguistics
Nummer	3
ISSN van geprinte versie	2363-5568

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