Papuans on the move. The linguistic prehistory of the West Papuan languages.

Project Information

OUTOFPAPUA

Grant agreement ID: 848532

DOI

10.3030/848532

Project closed

EC signature date 24 January 2020

Start date 1 September 2020

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 684,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 684,00

Coordinated by

STICHTING VU
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

The genetic origins and impacts of historical Papuan migrations into Wallacea

Author(s): Gludhug A. Purnomo, Shimona Kealy, Sue O’Connor, Antoinette Schapper, Ben Shaw, Bastien Llamas, Joao C. Teixeira, Herawati Sudoyo, Raymond Tobler
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 121, 2024, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2412355121

From possessive to relative clause marker: a grammaticalization pathway in the Timor-Alor-Pantar languages

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper
Published in: STUF - Language Typology and Universals, Issue 76, 2023, Page(s) 369-401, ISSN 1867-8319
Publisher: de Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/stuf-2023-2014

Position-dependent polarity in the Alor-Pantar languages and its origins

Author(s): Bastian Persohn, Antoinette Schapper
Published in: Journal of Historical Linguistics, 2025, ISSN 2210-2116
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
DOI: 10.1075/jhl.23042.per

The Greater West Bomberai Family

Author(s): Timothy Usher and Antoinette Schapper
Published in: Oceanic Linguistics, Issue 61.1, 2022, Page(s) 469–527, ISSN 0029-8115
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
DOI: 10.1353/ol.2021.0028

Adnominal possession in the languages of Wallacea: a survey

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper, Emily Gasser
Published in: STUF - Language Typology and Universals, Issue 76, 2023, Page(s) 273-329, ISSN 1867-8319
Publisher: de Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/stuf-2023-2012

Reframing pre-modern language contact through trade in eastern Indonesia: Javanese linguistic influence in the Moluccas

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper, Maria Zielenbach
Published in: Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society, Issue 18.2, 2025, Page(s) 1–23, ISSN 1836-6821
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Introduction to special issue on areal typology of lexico-semantics

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
Published in: Linguistic Typology, Issue 26.2, 2021, Page(s) 199-209, ISSN 1613-415X
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2021-2087

The Classification of Irarutu and Koiwai: A New Proposal

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper, Erik Zobel
Published in: Oceanic Linguistics, Issue 63, 2024, Page(s) 338-366, ISSN 1527-9421
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
DOI: 10.1353/ol.2024.a946248

Baring the bones: the lexico-semantic association of bone with strength in Melanesia and the study of colexification

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper
Published in: Linguistic Typology, Issue 0/0, 2021, ISSN 1430-0532
Publisher: Mouton de DeGruyter
DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2021-2082

Beyond “Macassans”: Speculations on layers of Austronesian contact in northern Australia.

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper
Published in: Australian Journal of Linguistics, Issue 41:4, 2021, Page(s) 434-452, ISSN 0726-8602
Publisher: Journal of the Australian Linguistic Society
DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2021.2000365

Book chapters (14)

Papuan influence on the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper
Published in: Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia, 2024, Page(s) 289–302
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Adnominal possession

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper, William McConvell
Published in: The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia, 2024, Page(s) 825-844
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198807353.003.0048

Linguistic Melanesia

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper
Published in: The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact, 2020, Page(s) 480-502, ISBN 9781351109154
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781351109154-29

Introduction

Author(s): David Gil, Antoinette Schapper
Published in: Austronesian Undressed - How and why languages become isolating, Issue 129, 2020, Page(s) 1-8, ISBN 9789027207906
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
DOI: 10.1075/tsl.129.int

Dutch loanwords in Ternate and their circulation in the Moluccas

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper, Maria Zielenbach
Published in: IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, Dutch and Contact Linguistics, 2026, Page(s) 392-426
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
DOI: 10.1075/impact.55.12sch

Models of Language Diversification

Author(s): Maria Zielenbach
Published in: Reference Module in Social Sciences, 2025
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-95504-1.00770-5

Papuan borrowings in the Kawaimina languages.

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper and Juliette Huber
Published in: Traces of Contact in the Lexicon, 2023, Page(s) 180-209
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004529458_007

2. Nedebang

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper
Published in: The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 3, 2020, Page(s) 53-138, ISBN 9781501511158
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9781501511158-002

1. Introduction to The Papuan languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar. Volume 3

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper
Published in: The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 3, 2020, Page(s) 1-52, ISBN 9781501511158
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9781501511158-001

Chapter 9. The origins of isolating word structure in eastern Timor

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper
Published in: Austronesian Undressed - How and why languages become isolating, Issue 129, 2020, Page(s) 391-446, ISBN 9789027207906
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
DOI: 10.1075/tsl.129.09sch

Archaeolinguistics of Papuan languages

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper, Dylan Gaffney, Nicolas Brucato
Published in: Oxford Guide to Archaeology and Language, 2025, Page(s) 493–517
Publisher: Oxford University Press

One language or two? The arbitrariness of isolate classifications in New Guinea

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper
Published in: Investigating language isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives, 2025, Page(s) 306–333
Publisher: John Benjamins

Languages of Timor and southern Maluku

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper, Erik Zobel
Published in: The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia, 2024, Page(s) 567-596
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198807353.003.0035

Historical and linguistic perspectives on fortified settlements in Southeastern Wallacea: Far eastern Timor in the context of southern Maluku

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper
Published in: Forts and Fortification in Wallacea: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investigations, 2020, Page(s) 221-246, ISBN 9781760463885
Publisher: ANU Press
DOI: 10.22459/ta53.2020.10

Monographic books (6)

A grammar of Bunaq

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper
Published in: Mouton Grammar Library, 2022, ISBN 9783110714500
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
DOI: 10.1515/9783110761146

Half silver, half gold: Modole folk stories and a first sketch grammar

Author(s): Maria Zielenbach
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Language Science Press

Austronesian Undressed - How and why languages become isolating

Author(s): David Gil and Antoinette Schapper
Published in: Typological Studies in Language, 2020, ISBN 9789027260536
Publisher: John Benjamins
DOI: 10.1075/tsl.129

The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia

Author(s): Sander Adelaar, Antoinette Schapper
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198807353.001.0001

Kamus Bahasa Teiwa – Indonesia – Inggris [Dictionary of Teiwa]

Author(s): Amos Sir, Antoinette Schapper
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Yayasan Pustaka Obor

The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 3

Author(s): Antoinette Schapper
Published in: Pacific Linguistics, 2020, ISBN 9781501511158
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
DOI: 10.1515/9781501511158