[PapuanLanguages] Request for examples of Papuan-Austronesian interaction

[Laura Robinson]

Hi Alan,

The languages of Alor-Pantar are good examples. My 2015 chapter "The
Alor-Pantar (Papuan) languages and Austronesian contact in East Nusantara"
from the volume Language Change in Austronesian Languages, Malcolm Ross and
I Wayan Arka (eds) includes a number of lexical examples that should be
easy to for non-specialists to understand. Marian Klamer and others have
also written about Austronesian contact with the Alor-Pantar languages.

Cheers,
Laura

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Alan Rumsey <Alan.Rumsey at anu.edu.au> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> For an interdisciplinary volume on 'Melanesian Worlds' I am currently
> writing a chapter on the languages of Melanesia. In that connection I am
> looking for some clear easy-to-understand examples for non-specialist
> readers of lexical diffusion and/or contact-induced structural convergence
> between Papuan and Austronesian languages that are spoken in proximity to
> one another. Can anyone point me to such examples?
>
> Best regards,
> Alan
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