Bruno Olsson

A Grammar of Coastal Marind (eBook, PDF)

Grammar of Coastal Marind

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783110747065
• Artikelnr.: 62473639

Autorenporträt

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