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.
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)
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.
''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: