A Grammar of Coastal Marind

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Buch | Hardcover
XXI, 587 Seiten
2021
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-072555-1 (ISBN)

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A Grammar of Coastal Marind - Bruno Olsson
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The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.
This grammar provides the first modern, comprehensive description of Coastal Marind. It is a Papuan language spoken by the coastal-dwelling Marind-Anim, formerly expansionistic head-hunters of the Southern New Guinea lowlands. Like the other languages of the poorly known Anim family, Coastal Marind features astonishingly complex verb morphology and a range of unusual phenomena, including indexing of up to four arguments on the verb, verbal marking of focus (the 'Orientation' system), engagement prefixes tracking the attention of the addressee, and a system of four genders realised by intricate agreement patterns. The structure of the language is examined in a detailed but accessible way, and its many complexities are brought to life by contextualised spontaneous data, drawn from a rich audio-visual corpus.

lt;strong>Bruno Olsson, Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ; 87
Zusatzinfo 18 b/w ill., 89 b/w tbl.
Verlagsort Basel/Berlin/Boston
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 240 mm
Gewicht 1138 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte Anim • grammar • Grammatik • Marind • Papuan Languages • Papuasprachen
ISBN-10 3-11-072555-X / 311072555X
ISBN-13 978-3-11-072555-1 / 9783110725551
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