Publications can also be downloaded from the Leiden University Repository or ResearchGate
Manuscripts under review Klamer, Marian, Yiya Chen and Jikke Swenne. Under review. Breathiness is not phonemic in Kedang. Submitted to Oceanic Linguistics.
Klamer, Marian and George Saad. Under review. Reduplication in Abui as Transfer of matter and pattern. Morphology.
Kaiping, Gereon and Marian Klamer. Under review. Subgrouping the Timor-Alor-Pantar languages using systematic Bayesian inference. Language Dynamics and Change. Journal Articles and Contributions to Volumes (Peer-reviewed) Klamer, Marian and Francesca Moro. Accepted. What is “natural” speech? Comparing free narratives and Frog stories in Indonesia. Language Documentation and Conservation.
Villerius, Sophie, Francesca Moro, and Marian Klamer. Accepted. Encoding Transfer Events in Surinamese Javanese. Journal of Language Contact.
Klamer, Marian. Accepted. From Lamaholot to Alorese: Morphological loss in adult language contact. In Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating, edited by David Gil and Antoinette Schapper. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Klamer, Marian, Mily Crevels and Pieter Muysken. Accepted. Patterns of dispersal and diversification in Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In Mily Crevels and Pieter Muysken (eds), Language dispersal, diversification and contact. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2019
Saad, George, Klamer, Marian, & Moro, Francesca. 2019. Identifying agents of change: Simplification of possessive marking in Abui-Malay bilinguals. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 4(1), 57.1-29. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.846
Klamer, Marian. 2019. The Austronesian dispersal: Current findings and debates. Language and Linguistics Compass 2019;13:e12325. DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12325
2018
Kaiping, Gereon and Marian Klamer. 2018. LexiRumah: An online lexical database of the Lesser Sunda Islands. PLoS ONE 13(10): e0205250. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205250
Arkadiev, Peter and Marian Klamer. 2018. Morphological theory and typology. In Jenny Audring and Francesca Masini (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian. 2018. Documenting the linguistic diversity of Indonesia: Time is running out. In: Santri E.P. Djahimo (ed.), 2018. Proceedings of ‘Revitalization of local languages as the pillar of pluralism’, p. 1-10. [Proceedings of the International Conference on Local Languages, organized by APBL (Asosiasi Peneliti Bahasa-bahasa Lokal) & Nusa Cendana University, Kupang, 29-30 June 2018]. Salatiga: Satya Wacana Press. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian and Frantisek Kratochvíl. 2018. The Emergence of Differential Object Marking in Alor-Pantar languages. In Ilja Seržant and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds), The Diachronic Typology of Differential Argument Marking. Berlin: Language Science Press. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian. 2018. Typology and grammaticalization in the Papuan languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar. In Heiko Narrog and Bernd Heine (eds), Grammaticalization from a typological perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 235-262. [pdf]
Kaiping, Gereon, and Marian Klamer. 2018. LexiRumah: A lexical database for languages of the Lesser Sunda islands. http://www.model-ling.eu
2017 Holton, Gary and Marian Klamer. 2017. The Papuan languages of East Nusantara and the Bird’s Head. In Bill Palmer (ed.), The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area. Berlin New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 549-619. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian (ed.). 2017. The Alor Pantar languages: History and typology (2nd revised edition). Berlin: Language Science Press. [open access]
2016 Perwitasari, Arum, Marian Klamer, Niels O. Schiller. 2016. Acoustic analysis of Javanese and Sundanese vowels. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. [pdf]
2015 Perwitasari, Arum, Marian Klamer, Jurriaan Witteman, Niels O. Schiller. 2015. Vowel duration in English as a second language among Javanese learners. International Conference on Phonetic Sciences 2015, Glasgow UK, August 2015. [pdf]
Moro, Francesca and Marian Klamer. 2015. ‘Give’-constructions in heritage Ambon Malay in the Netherlands. Journal of Language Contact, 8: 263-289. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian. 2015. Language as a time machine. Inaugural lecture, Friday 6 February 2015. Leiden: Leiden University. [pdf]
2014 Klamer, Marian. 2014. Book review of Viveka Velupillai, An Introduction to Linguistic Typology (2012). Lingua 53: 21-23. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian (ed.). 2014. The Alor Pantar languages: History and typology. Berlin: Language Science Press. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian and František Kratochvíl (eds.). 2014. Number and Quantity in East Nusantara. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. [pdf] [open access]
Klamer, Marian. 2014. Kaera. In Antoinette Schapper (ed.), The Papuan languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: sketch grammars. Vol. 1. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 97-146. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian. 2014. Numeral classifiers in the Papuan languages of Alor and Pantar: A comparative perspective. In Marian Klamer and František Kratochvíl (eds.), Number and Quantity in East Nusantara. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 103-122. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian. 2014. The Alor Pantar languages: Linguistic context, history and typology. In Marian Klamer (ed.), The Alor-Pantar languages: History and typology. Berlin: Language Science Press, 5-53. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian. 2014. The history of numeral classifiers in Teiwa (Papuan). In Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and Anne Storch (eds.), Number: Constructions and Semantics. Case studies from Africa, India, Amazonia & Oceania. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 135-166. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian and František Kratochvíl. 2014. The Expression of Number in languages of East Nusantara: An Overview. In Marian Klamer and František Kratochvíl (eds.), Number and Quantity in East Nusantara. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 1-14. [pdf][open access]
Klamer, Marian, Antoinette Schapper, and Greville Corbett. 2014. Plural number words in the Alor-Pantar languages. In Marian Klamer (ed.), The Alor-Pantar languages: History and typology. Berlin: Language Science Press, 375-412. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian, Antoinette Schapper, Greville Corbett, Gary Holton, František Kratochvíl, and Laura Robinson. 2014. Numeral words and arithmetic operations in the Alor-Pantar languages. In Marian Klamer (ed.), The Alor-Pantar languages: History and typology. Berlin: Language Science Press , 337-374. [pdf]
Schapper, Antoinette and Marian Klamer. 2014. Numeral systems in the Alor-Pantar languages. In Marian Klamer (ed.), The Alor-Pantar languages: History and typology. Berlin: Language Science Press, 285-336. [pdf]
2013 Fedden, Sebastian, Dunstan Brown, Greville Corbett, Gary Holton, Marian Klamer, Laura Robinson, and Antoinette Schapper. 2013. Conditions on pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages. Linguistics 5, 1: 33–74. [pdf]
2012 Evans, Nicholas and Marian Klamer. 2012. Introduction: Linguistic challenges of the Papuan region. In Nicholas Evans and Marian Klamer (eds.), Melanesian Languages on the Edge of Asia: Challenges for the 21st Century. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 5. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1–12. [pdf] [open access]
Evans, Nicholas and Marian Klamer (eds.) 2012. Melanesian languages on the Edge of Asia: Challenges for the 21st Century. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 5. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. [pdf] [open access]
Holton, Gary, Marian Klamer, František Kratochvíl, Laura Robinson, and Antoinette Schapper. 2012. The historical relation of the Papuan languages of Alor and Pantar. Oceanic Linguistics 51, 1: 87-122. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian. 2012. Kosa kata Bahasa Teiwa-Indonesia-Inggris (Teiwa-Indonesian-English glossary). Kupang: Language and Culture Unit UBB. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian and Antoinette Schapper. 2012. ‘Give’ constructions in the Papuan languages of Timor-Alor-Pantar. Linguistic Discovery 10,3: 174-207. [pdf] [open access]
Klamer, Marian. 2012. Papuan-Austronesian language contact: Alorese from an areal perspective. In Nicholas Evans and Marian Klamer (eds.), Melanesian Languages on the Edge of Asia: Challenges for the 21st Century. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 5. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 72-108. [pdf] [open access]
Klamer, Marian. 2012. Reality Status in Teiwa (Papuan). Language Sciences 34, 2: 216-228. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian. 2012. Tours of the past through the present of eastern Indonesia. In Frank Seifart, Geoffrey Haig, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Dagmar Jung, and Paul Trilsbeek (eds.), Potentials of Language Documentation: Methods, Analyses, and Utilization. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 3. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 55-64. [pdf] [open access]
2011 Klamer, Marian. 2011. A Short Grammar of Alorese (Austronesian). Munich: LINCOM. [pdf]
Schapper, Antoinette and Marian Klamer. 2011. Plural words in Papuan languages of Alor-Pantar. Proceedings of Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory (LDLT) 3. London: School of Oriental and African Studies. [pdf]
2010 Ewing, Michael and Marian Klamer (eds.). 2010. East Nusantara: Typological and Areal Analyses. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. [pdf] [publication information]
2009 Klamer, Marian. 2009. The Use of Language Data in Comparative Research: A Note on Blust (2008) and Onvlee (1984). Oceanic Linguistics 48, 1: 250-263. [pdf]
2008 Klamer, Marian, Ger Reesink and Miriam van Staden. 2008. Eastern Indonesia as a linguistic area. In Pieter Muysken (ed.), From linguistic areas to areal linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 95-149. [pdf of proofs]
Klamer, Marian. 2008. Split-S in the Indonesian Area: Forms, Semantics, Geography. Studies in Philippine Languages and Cultures Vol. 17, 98-120. [pdf] [2006 conference handout]
Klamer, Marian. 2008. The semantics of Semantic Alignment in eastern Indonesia. In Mark Donohue and Søren Wichmann (eds.), The Typology of Semantic Alignment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 221-251. [pdf]
2007 Klamer, Marian. 2007. Differential marking of intransitive subjects in Kambera. In H. de Hoop & P. de Swart (eds.), Differential subject marking. Boston/New York: Springer, 281-299. [pdf of proofs]
2006 Baird, Louise and Marian Klamer. 2006. Persoalan ortografi dalam bahasa daerah di Alor dan Pantar. [Orthographical issues in local languages on Alor and Pantar]. Linguistik Indonesia 24, 1: 36-57. [English pdf] [Indonesian pdf]
Klamer, Marian. 2006. Complement clause type and complementation strategy in Kambera. In R.M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds.), Complementation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 245-262. [pdf] [table]
Klamer, Marian and František Kratochvíl. 2006. The role of animacy in Teiwa and Abui (Papuan). Proceedings of BLS 32. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistic Society. [pdf]
2005 Klamer, Marian. 2005. Explaining structural and semantic asymmetries in morphological typology. In Geert Booij, Emiliano Guevara, Angela Ralli, Salvatore Sgroi and Sergio Scalise (eds.), Morphology and Linguistic Typology, On-line Proceedings of the Fourth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM4)], Catania, 21-23 September 2003. URL: http://morbo.lingue.unibo.it/mmm/ [pdf] [open access]
Klamer, Marian. Kambera. 2005. In Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (eds.), The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge, 709-734. [pdf]
2004 Klamer, Marian. 2004. East Nusantara: Genetic, areal and typological approaches. Oceanic Linguistics 43, 1: 240-244. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian. 2004. Multi-categorial items as underspecified lexical entries: The case of Kambera wàngu. In Olga Fisher, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon (eds.), Up and Down the cline: The Nature of Grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 299-323. [pdf of proofs]
2002 Klamer, Marian. 2002. Report constructions in Kambera (Austronesian). In Tom Güldemann and Manfred von Rucador (eds.), Reported discourse. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 323-340. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian. 2002. Semantically motivated lexical patterns: a study of Dutch and Kambera expressives. Language 78, 2: 258-286. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian. 2002. Ten years of synchronic Austronesian linguistics (1991-2001). Lingua 112, 2: 933-965. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian. 2002. Typical features of Austronesian languages in Central/Eastern Indonesia. Oceanic Linguistics 41, 2: 363-383. [pdf]
2001 Klamer, Marian (guest editor). 2001. In Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 2000. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Klamer, Marian. 2001. Expressives and iconicity in the lexicon. In F. K. Erhard Voeltz and Christa Kilian-Hatz (eds.), Ideophones. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 165-181. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian. 2001. Phrasal emotion predicates in three languages of Eastern Indonesia. In Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 2000. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 97-121. [pdf]
2000 Klamer, Marian (ed.). 2000. Proceedings of the 7th conference of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association [AFLA7]. Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian. 2000. Continuative aspect and the dative clitic in Kambera. In Ileana Paul, Vivianne Phillips, and Lisa Travis (eds.), Formal issues in Austronesian Linguistics [Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 49]. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 49-63. [pdf] [open access]
Klamer, Marian. 2000. How report verbs become quote markers and complementisers. Lingua 110: 69-98. [pdf]
Klamer, Marian. 2000. Austronesian expressives and the lexicon. In Catherine Kitto and Carolyn Smallwood (eds.), Proceedings of AFLA 6. University of Toronto: Working Papers in Linguistics. [pdf]
1999 - 1994 Klamer, Marian. 1999. Grammaticalized quotations in Kambera, Buru and Tukang Besi’. In Elizabeth Zeitoun and Paul Jen-kuei Li (eds.), Selected Papers from the Eight International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Taipei, Taiwan: Academia Sinica, 579-598. [pdf] Klamer, M., I. Molema, R. Spreeuw, D. Stapel, and H. Veenhof (eds.). 1999. Over de grenzen van het weten. Jaarboek 1998, Vereniging van Akademie-onderzoekers. Amsterdam: Edita. [publication information] Klamer, Marian. 1998. A grammar of Kambera. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. [publication information] Klamer, Marian. 1998. Kambera intransitive argument linking. Studia Linguistica 52, 2: 77-111. [pdf] Klamer, M., I. Molema, R. Spreeuw and D. Waarsenburg (eds.). 1998. Van frictie tot wetenschap. Jaarboek 1997, Vereniging van Akademie-onderzoekers. Amsterdam: Edita. [publication information] Klamer, Marian. 1997. Spelling out clitics in Kambera. In Matthew Pearson (ed.), Recent papers in Austronesian linguistics. UCLA Department of Linguistics, 201-222. Klamer, Marian. 1997. Spelling out clitics in Kambera. Linguistics 35, 895-927. [pdf] [open access] Klamer, Marian. 1996. Kambera has no passive. In Marian Klamer (ed.), Voice in Austronesian [NUSA 39]. Jakarta: Universitas Atma Jaya, 12-30.[pdf] Klamer, Marian (ed.) 1996. Voice in Austronesian [NUSA 39]. Jakarta: Universitas Atma Jaya. [pdf] van der Hulst, Harry and Marian Klamer. 1996. Reduplication in Leti. In Crit Cremers and Marcel den Dikken (eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1996. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 109-120. [pdf] van der Hulst, Harry and Marian Klamer. 1996. The Uneven Trochee and the Structure of Kambera Roots. In Marina Nespor and Norval Smith (eds.), Dam Phonology. The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics. [pdf] Klamer, Marian. 1994. Applicatives in Kambera. In Peter Ackema and Maaike Schoorlemmer (eds.), Proceedings of CONSOLE 1. The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics, 135-151. [pdf] Klamer, Marian. 1994. Split intransitivity in Kambera, Languages of the World 9. München: LINCOM. [pdf] van der Hulst, Harry and Marian Klamer. 1994. The prosodic structure of Kambera roots and words. In Cecilia Odé and Wim Stokhof (eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 105-12. [pdf]
Reviews Klamer, Marian. 2014. Book review of Viveka Velupillai, An Introduction to Linguistic Typology (2012). Lingua 53: 21-23. Klamer, Marian. 2010. Book notice of Paul R. Kroeger, Analyzing grammar: an introduction. eLanguage. Klamer, Marian. 2008. Review of Rebecca Sue Jenkins, Language Contact and Composite Structures in New Ireland. In Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 164, 2/3: 320-325. [pdf] Klamer, Marian. 2002. Book notice of Joel C. Kuipers, Language Identity and Marginality in Eastern Indonesia. Cambridge University Press. Language 76. Klamer, Marian. 2002. Review of John H. McWhorter, The power of Babel: A natural history of language. New York: Times Books. Radix 28. [pdf] Klamer, Marian. 2000. Review of Thomas E. Payne, Describing Morpho-syntax – A guide for field linguists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Lingua 110: 131-135. [pdf] Klamer, Marian. 1999. Book notice of Arthur Holmer, A parametric grammar of Seediq. Lund: Lund University Press. Language 75, 1: 198-199. Klamer, Marian. 1999. Review of Mark Donohue, A grammar of Tukang Besi. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 1999. LINGUIST LIST: Issue 10.1439, 20 September 1999.