A Grammar of Coastal Marind /
Olsson, Bruno
A Grammar of Coastal Marind / Bruno Olsson. - 1 online resource (XXI, 587 p.) - Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 87 0933-7636 ; .
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of maps, tables and figures -- Abbreviations and conventions -- 1 Preliminaries -- 2 Phonology -- 3 Nominals, their morphology and derivation -- 4 Pronouns and demonstratives -- 5 Nominal gender -- 6 Adpositions and particles -- 7 The syntax of phrases -- 8 Overview of the verb -- 9 Participant indexing I: The Actor, Dative and Genitive prefixes -- 10 Participant indexing II: Undergoer alternations -- 11 The system of Verb Orientation -- 12 Valence classes -- 13 Valence-changing constructions -- 14 Tense and aspect -- 15 Mood, attitude and engagement -- 16 Distribution of events in time and space -- 17 The Auxiliary, copula clauses and light verbs -- 18 Basic clausal syntax -- 19 Non-declarative speech acts -- 20 Combinations of clauses -- Appendix: Texts -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783110725551 9783110747126 9783110747065
10.1515/9783110747065 doi
Anim.
Grammatik.
Marind.
Papuasprachen.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Anim. Grammar. Marind. Papuan Languages.
499/.12
A Grammar of Coastal Marind / Bruno Olsson. - 1 online resource (XXI, 587 p.) - Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 87 0933-7636 ; .
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of maps, tables and figures -- Abbreviations and conventions -- 1 Preliminaries -- 2 Phonology -- 3 Nominals, their morphology and derivation -- 4 Pronouns and demonstratives -- 5 Nominal gender -- 6 Adpositions and particles -- 7 The syntax of phrases -- 8 Overview of the verb -- 9 Participant indexing I: The Actor, Dative and Genitive prefixes -- 10 Participant indexing II: Undergoer alternations -- 11 The system of Verb Orientation -- 12 Valence classes -- 13 Valence-changing constructions -- 14 Tense and aspect -- 15 Mood, attitude and engagement -- 16 Distribution of events in time and space -- 17 The Auxiliary, copula clauses and light verbs -- 18 Basic clausal syntax -- 19 Non-declarative speech acts -- 20 Combinations of clauses -- Appendix: Texts -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783110725551 9783110747126 9783110747065
10.1515/9783110747065 doi
Anim.
Grammatik.
Marind.
Papuasprachen.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Anim. Grammar. Marind. Papuan Languages.
499/.12