Functional verbs in Alor-Pantar languages: Teiwa functional verbs dataset

The 'Functional verbs datasets' were obtained through the use of
video stimuli designed to study to study variation in the patterns of pronominal
marking in five non-Austronesian languages of Alor and Pantar (Abui, Adang, Kamang,
Teiwa and Western Pantar) of eastern Indonesia.

We concentrated on the role of functional verbs in the Alor-Pantar languages, i.e.
verbs with the basic meanings 'come', 'hold', 'take', 'be in', and 'be on', where we
discovered that different related cognates in the languages lie at different points
on a continuum from independent lexical verbs to clitic postpositions.

The datasets were created for the project 'Alor-Pantar languages: Origins and
theoretical impact', funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
through European Science Foundation-EuroBabel.