This study is a grammatical description of an endangered language of eastern Indonesia called Lam... more This study is a grammatical description of an endangered language of eastern Indonesia called Lamaholot, spoken on the eastern part of Flores, and three neighboring small islands, Solor, Adonara and Lembata. The study focuses on the Solor dialect spoken over the entire Solor Island by about 20,000 people residing in 33 villages. The data for this study were collected from the native speakers in Karawatung village in three periods, each lasting for at least three months, through audio-video recording, elicitation and written document gathering. The language has a relatively simple phonological system. It has 16 native and 3 loan consonants, and 6 basic vowel qualities, where every oral vowel has a xxiii Indonesia for the Overseas Postgraduate Scholarship that supported and enabled me to pursue my PhD at the University of Adelaide, Australia. I also acknowledge the support from the University of Adelaide through the PW Rice Scholarship for
This study is a grammatical description of an endangered language of eastern Indonesia called Lam... more This study is a grammatical description of an endangered language of eastern Indonesia called Lamaholot, spoken on the eastern part of Flores, and three neighboring small islands, Solor, Adonara and Lembata. The study focuses on the Solor dialect spoken over the entire Solor Island by about 20,000 people residing in 33 villages. The data for this study were collected from the native speakers in Karawatung village in three periods, each lasting for at least three months, through audio-video recording, elicitation and written document gathering. The language has a relatively simple phonological system. It has 16 native and 3 loan consonants, and 6 basic vowel qualities, where every oral vowel has a xxiii Indonesia for the Overseas Postgraduate Scholarship that supported and enabled me to pursue my PhD at the University of Adelaide, Australia. I also acknowledge the support from the University of Adelaide through the PW Rice Scholarship for
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