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This paper investigates variation in possessive marking in Abui, a language spoken in a minoritybilingual community in eastern Indonesia. Abui youngsters grow up acquiring both Abui (Papuan)and Alor Malay (Austronesian), but only become active speakers of Abui when they reach adolescence. Due to this delay, their Abui is expected to show signs of both imperfect acquisitionand contact-induced effects. This language background makes them an interesting populationon which to carry out a cross-sectional study on contact-induced variation. Abui distinguishesbetween a reflexive and non-reflexive possessive marker, while Alor Malay makes no such distinction. Combining methods from descriptive linguistics, bilingualism research, and variationistsociolinguistics, and using both a production and a comprehension task, we study the variationbetween four age-groups of Abui-Malay bilinguals: (pre-)adolescents, young adults, adults, andelders. Our results reveal that (pre-)adolescent males are the drivers of variation, and generalizethe non-reflexive possessive marker to reflexive environments. This suggests that over the nextdecades the reflexive possessive prefix may be lost in Abui. This paper is a direct answer toa call by Ross (2013) to conduct in-depth variationist studies to establish more synchronicallyinformed approaches to the study of language contact. In addition, by combining production andcomprehension studies and applying them to an indigenous minority language, it expands theempirical support for a prominent hypothesis of bilingual processing: the Missing Surface Inflection Hypothesis (Prevost & White 2000b).

Identifying agents of change: Simplification of possessive marking in Abui-Malay bilinguals