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A Grammar of Coastal Marind / Bruno Olsson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ; 87Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (XXI, 587 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110725551
  • 9783110747126
  • 9783110747065
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 499/.12 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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