Aone van Engelenhoven
Dutch linguist and anthropologist (born 1962)
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Aone van Engelenhoven (born 1962) is a Dutch linguist and anthropologist[1] who teaches at Leiden University. He conducts research in the field of linguistics and anthropology, with a focus on smaller languages from Indonesia. He has carried out extensive research on the languages and traditions of Maluku and East Timor.[2]
Education and career
Van Engelenhoven was educated at the Leiden University, where he graduated with a master's degree in comparative linguistics in 1987.[3] He wrote a PhD dissertation on the description of the Leti language in 1995.[4] He started as a lecturer of Austronesian languages in 1993 at his alma mater.
In 2007, van Engelenhoven accidentally discovered a virtually extinct language called Rusenu while studying another endangered language from East Timor called Makuva.[5]
Publications
- Concealment, Maintenance and Renaissance: language and ethnicity in the Moluccan community in the Netherlands (2002)
- Leti, a language of Southwest Maluku (2004)
- The position of Makuva among the Austronesian languages of East Timor and Southwest Maluku (2009)
- Searching the Invariant: Semiotactic Explorations into Meaning (2011) ISBN 978-3862880362[6]
- The Spoor of the Mythical Sailfish (2013)