TY  - BOOK
AU  - Olsson,Bruno
TI  - A Grammar of Coastal Marind
T2  - Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ,
SN  - 9783110725551
U1  - 499/.12 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Anim
KW  - Grammatik
KW  - Marind
KW  - Papuasprachen
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Papuan Languages
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747065
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110747065
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ER  -