Aone van Engelenhoven

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)

References

1. "'The Forsaken Children of the Compagnie'". The Jakarta Post. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
2. ORCID. "Aone van Engelenhoven (0000-0003-3334-7396)". orcid.org. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
3. "Aone van Engelenhoven". Leiden University. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
4. Engelenhoven, A. (1 January 2004). Leti, a Language of Southwest Maluku. Brill. ISBN   978-90-6718-235-5.
5. van Wayenburg, Bruno (28 April 2007). "Noorderlicht Noorderlicht Nieuws: Raadselachtig Rusenu". Archived from the original on 28 April 2007. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
6. Geerdink-Verkoren, Hetty; Engelenhoven, Aone van. Searching the Invariant: Semiotactic Explorations into Meaning. ASIN   3862880362.