A Grammar of Coastal Marind

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-11-112077-5
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 87, 587 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1023 g

Reihe: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars interested in Papuan Languages, Linguistic Typology, Mor

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olsson, Bruno

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Über Autor(innen)

Bruno Olsson, Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Bruno Olsson, Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.