TY - BOOK
T1 - A Grammar of Coastal Marind
AU - Olsson, Bruno
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/6/8
Y1 - 2021/6/8
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.
AB - 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.
KW - Anim
KW - Grammar
KW - Marind
KW - Papuan languages
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85122846086&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/9783110747065
DO - 10.1515/9783110747065
M3 - Book
SN - 9783110725551
BT - A Grammar of Coastal Marind
PB - de Gruyter
ER -