Functional verbs in Alor-Pantar languages: Abui 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.

‘功能动词数据集（Functional verbs datasets）’通过旨在研究印度尼西亚东部阿洛与潘塔尔群岛五种非南岛语系语言——阿布依语（Abui）、阿当语（Adang）、卡曼语（Kamang）、泰瓦语（Teiwa）与西潘塔尔语（Western Pantar）——的代词标记模式变异的视频刺激材料获取。
本次研究聚焦阿洛-潘塔尔语族的功能动词，即语义基础为‘来’‘持有’‘取’‘处于’以及‘置于’的动词。研究发现，这些语言中的不同相关同源词，在从独立实义动词到黏着后置词的连续统上占据不同位置。
本数据集为‘阿洛-潘塔尔语族：起源与理论影响’项目所创制，该项目由艺术与人文研究委员会（Arts and Humanities Research Council, AHRC）通过欧洲科学基金会-欧洲巴别尔计划（European Science Foundation-EuroBabel）资助。