A grammar of Coastal Marind

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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...

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1. Verfasser:
Olsson, Bruno
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Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter Mouton [2021]
Zusammenfassung:
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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1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 587 Seiten)
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)
Biblio­graphische Verweise:
(ZDB-23-DGG)9783110747065
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In English
Schriftenreihe:
Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ; 87
ISBN:
9783110747065
DOI:
10.1515/9783110747065
Schlagworte:
Marind
Grammatik
Neuguinea
Sprache
Anim
Papuasprachen
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