A Grammar of Coastal Marind Bruno Olsson.
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TextSeries: Mouton grammar library ; 87.Publisher: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter Mouton, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (XXI, 587 p.)ISBN: 3110747065; 9783110747065Subject(s): Papuan languages -- Grammar | Anim | Grammatik | Marind | Papuasprachen | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General | Papuan languages -- Grammar | Anim | Grammar | Marind | Papuan LanguagesGenre/Form: EBSCO eBooks | Electronic books. DDC classification: 499/.12 LOC classification: PL6603 | .O47 2021Online resources: EBSCOhost 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.
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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