Marian Klamer is Director PhD programs and Professor of Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics at the Centre for Linguistics. She works on the description and comparison of smaller, under-described Austronesian and Papuan languages in Indonesia, and she studies the history and culture of the populations who speak the languages.

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Fields of interest

• Papuan and Austronesian languages and linguistics
• Malay varieties
• language description and documentation
• language contact and change
• linguistic typology

Research

My publications cover a wide range of linguistic topics including morphology, typology, grammaticalization, historical reconstruction, and the effects of language contact on the lexicon and grammar of languages. I wrote grammars on two Austronesian languages (Kambera, 1998; Alorese, 2011) and three Papuan languages (Teiwa, 2010; Kaera, 2014; Sentani, to appear), and recently edited (with Francesca Moro) the volume Traces of contact in the lexicon: Austronesian and Papuan studies (Brill, 2023). In the interdisciplinary RISE-OCSEAN project I am currently responsible for the collection of linguistic data in Island SE Asia.

Grants and awards

• 2019 Elected Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam

Grants (selection, main applicant):

• 2014-2019 Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) – VICI Grant ‘Reconstructing the past through languages of the present’. € 1,500,000
• 2014 NWO – Aspasia premium. € 100,000
• 2012-2014 CLARIN-NL Language Archive of Insular South East Asia and West New Guinea (LAISEANG). € 80,000
• 2009-2012 European Science Foundation (ESF)-EuroCORES-EuroBABEL Research Project ‘Alor-Pantar languages: Origins and theoretical impact’. € 935,000
• 2002-2007 NWO Vernieuwingsimpuls (VIDI) ‘Linguistic variation in Eastern Indonesia’. € 650,000

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