Language contact in East Nusantara

Author : John Bowden

Publication date : 2000

Bibliographical references :

Bowden, John. 2000. Language contact in East Nusantara. for the 2000 East Nusantara Linguistics Workshop, workshop on language contact.

Goals

This questionnaire aims to "uncover some of the range of language contact phenomena exhibited by languages from throughout the East Nusantara region [...] [and] to understand historical change in languages of the region more clearly." (Bowden, 2000: 1)

Protocol summary

It is a checklist-like questionnaire divided in two major parts, in which different sections are included: 

I. The present situation 
a. General Overview
b. Language use:
c. Code mixing

II. Past linguistic contact:
a. Contact languages 
b. Lexical borrowing
c. Calquing
d. Phonological contact 
e. Borrowed conjunctions
f. Borrowed adpositions
g. Other borrowed grammatical function words
h. Constructional borrowing? 
i. Syntax and word order
j. The so-called ‘reverse genitive’
k. Borrowing of morphology

III. Others matters.
Linguists can add their own questions if the previous ones did not cover everything on the investigated language. They are also invited to contact the author, in order to improve the richness of the questionnaire.

Development context

''This questionnaire was developed for the 2000 East Nusantara Linguistic Workshop. The questionnaire is intended to elicit the information necessary for an examination of language contact in East Nusantara.'' (Typological tools for field linguistics, https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/tools-at-lingboard/questionnaire/language-contact_description.php)

For other questionnaires developed for the same workshop, see:

  • Engelenhoven, Aone van. 2000. "Deixis and Location". for the 2000 East Nusantara Linguistics Workshop, workshop on deixis
  • Florey, Margaret. 2000. "Oral Traditions Questionnaire". for the 2000 East Nusantara Linguistics Workshop, workshop on oral traditions.
  • Klamer, Marian. 2000. "Valency Questionaire". for the 2000 East Nusantara Linguistics Workshop, workshop on valency.
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