 Uri Tadmor
Currently based at Jakarta Field Station
 Email: tadmor eva.mpg.de
Uri Tadmor obtained his PhD from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in 1995, after having conducted his dissertation research in Thailand under a Fulbright grant. After graduating, he was appointed Head of the Indonesian program at the University of Hawai'i. Since 1999 he has been Coordinator of the Jakarta Field Station of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. His main research interests are language contact and Malay dialectology. He is currently conducting research on traditional Jambi Malay in Sumatra (a joint project with the University of Delaware, funded by the NSF) and on Land Dayak Languages in Borneo.
Language expertise:
Malayic languages,
Southern Land Dayak languages
Research Projects:
Loanword Typology: Comparative Study of Lexical Borowability
In this project, we study lexical borrowing patterns in 40 languages from around the world. Each language is the responsibility of a single author, an expert of the language and what is known about its history and its contact languages. For each language, we assemble lexical data for a fixed list of 1460 meanings. [more]
Acquisition of Jakarta Indonesian
The goal of the Acquisition Project was to record, transcribe, and enter into a computerized database, a corpus of naturalistic data from a large sample of Jakarta Indonesian child language. [more]
Language and Thought: Universality and Relativism
This project studies Traditional Jambi Malay, an endangered Malay variety spoken in Jambi Province in southeast Sumatra, Indonesia. The Malay language originated in Sumatra, and dozens of Malay dialects are spoken on the island, none of which have been well described. Most native speakers of Malay live in Sumatra, many more than in Malaysia, for example. Yet there is not even one thorough grammatical description of a Sumatran Malay dialect. One of the expected results of this project would be the first detailed description of such a dialect. [more]
The Phonology of Jakarta Indonesian
Given the importance of Jakarta Indonesian, it is surprising that its phonology has never been systematically described and analyzed. This new project aims to correct this situation. [more]
Language Contact in Indonesia
Nearly 800 languages are spoken in Indonesia, in addition to Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), the national language. The great majority of Indonesians are therefore proficient in at least two languages, their local home language and Indonesian. This makes Indonesia an ideal location in which to study language contact. [more]
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