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The Munda Verb : Typological Perspectives / Gregory D. S. Anderson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 174Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110189650
  • 9783110924251
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 495.9/5 22
LOC classification:
  • PL4502 .A63 2007
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-XVI -- Chapter 1. The Munda language family -- Chapter 2. Voice and version in the Munda verb -- Chapter 3. Referent indexing in the Munda verb -- Chapter 4. Tense, aspect, mood and transitivity -- Chapter 5. Negation -- Chapter 6. Noun incorporation -- Chapter 7. Switch reference -- Chapter 8. Auxiliary verb construction and other complex predicate types -- References -- Index
Summary: The Munda Verb is a unique book on the typology of the verb in the Munda language family, and the first of its kind on any language family of the Indian subcontinent. The author painstakingly works out nearly all the details of the morphology of the verb in each modern Munda language and offers a description of the typology of the Munda verbal systems both individually and collectively. The author uses a large amount of data from modern Munda languages, as well as an extensive cross-linguistic corpus offering comparisons from genetically unrelated languages such as Fox, Amele, Kinyarwanda, Luyia, Takelma, Tonkawa, Burushaski, or Tangut where relevant. Points of note include the unusual incorporation system of South Munda Sora and the elaborate and complex system of verb agreement attested in the Kherwarian Munda languages. Further, the author discusses models for a Proto-Munda verbal system and problems in its reconstruction at various points throughout. This book is of great interest to specialists working on the Munda languages, South Asian linguistics, language typology, historical linguistics and to scholars of both morphology as well as syntax.

I-XVI -- Chapter 1. The Munda language family -- Chapter 2. Voice and version in the Munda verb -- Chapter 3. Referent indexing in the Munda verb -- Chapter 4. Tense, aspect, mood and transitivity -- Chapter 5. Negation -- Chapter 6. Noun incorporation -- Chapter 7. Switch reference -- Chapter 8. Auxiliary verb construction and other complex predicate types -- References -- Index

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The Munda Verb is a unique book on the typology of the verb in the Munda language family, and the first of its kind on any language family of the Indian subcontinent. The author painstakingly works out nearly all the details of the morphology of the verb in each modern Munda language and offers a description of the typology of the Munda verbal systems both individually and collectively. The author uses a large amount of data from modern Munda languages, as well as an extensive cross-linguistic corpus offering comparisons from genetically unrelated languages such as Fox, Amele, Kinyarwanda, Luyia, Takelma, Tonkawa, Burushaski, or Tangut where relevant. Points of note include the unusual incorporation system of South Munda Sora and the elaborate and complex system of verb agreement attested in the Kherwarian Munda languages. Further, the author discusses models for a Proto-Munda verbal system and problems in its reconstruction at various points throughout. This book is of great interest to specialists working on the Munda languages, South Asian linguistics, language typology, historical linguistics and to scholars of both morphology as well as syntax.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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