Tanah Papua, which includes the provinces of Papua and West Papua, is the most
diverse linguistic region in Indonesia. Out of 760 languages in Indonesia, Tanah Papua
has about 270 languages. The diversity of languages ...
This paper surveys a morpho-syntactic construction in which the possessors of possessive morphology on nouns are used to index subject and object arguments on verbs in some languages in Papua. Naturally, possessive morphology ...
Reciprocality, also known as reciprocal situation or reciprocal constructions,
constitutes an expression which describes both the forms and meaning of an
activity embodying a mutual relation. Papuan Malay, a pidginized ...
In this paper, we reflect on linguistic fieldwork and language documentation
activities in Eastern Indonesia. We first present the rich linguistic and
biological diversity of this region, which is of significant interest ...