Eline Visser
Associate senior lecturer/Assistant Professor in General Linguistics at Department of Linguistics and Philology
- E-mail:
- eline.visser@lingfil.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 527
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
I work on Uruangnirin (iso code urn), an Austronesian language of eastern Indonesia. I have previously written a grammar of its Papuan neighbour language Kalamang (iso code kgv).
For an up-to-date list of publications, see https://elinevisser23.github.io/.

Publications
Recent publications
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The Missing Middle: Language Documentation Needs Better Infrastructure, Not Better Models
Part of Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9), p. 136-147, 2026
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A Grammar Sketch of Uruangnirin
Part of Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2026
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Life and death on Karas: Ten Uruangnirin texts
Language Science Press, 2026
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Subject realization in Uruangnirin
Part of Language Typology and Universals, p. 573-606, 2026
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A Phonological Sketch of Uruangnirin, an Endangered Austronesian Language of Eastern Indonesia
Part of Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2025
All publications
Articles in journal
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A Grammar Sketch of Uruangnirin
Part of Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2026
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Subject realization in Uruangnirin
Part of Language Typology and Universals, p. 573-606, 2026
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A Phonological Sketch of Uruangnirin, an Endangered Austronesian Language of Eastern Indonesia
Part of Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2025
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A grammar sketch of Yamdena and an introduction to its corpus
Part of Language Documentation & Conservation, p. 67-108, 2024
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Uruangnirin (Indonesia): Language Snapshot
Part of Language Documentation and Description, p. 1-7, 2024
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Books
Chapters in book
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Form and frequency of Kalamang fillers
Part of Fillers, p. 251-273, Language Science Press, 2025
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Part of Negation in the world's languages III, p. 129-157, Language Science Press, 2025
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The money-defecating cow and other stories: The structure of Kalamang narratives
Part of Oral Traditions in Insular Southeast Asia, p. 158-179, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024
Conference papers
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The Missing Middle: Language Documentation Needs Better Infrastructure, Not Better Models
Part of Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9), p. 136-147, 2026
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