| A Grammar of Coastal Marind Contributor(s): Olsson, Bruno (Author) |
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ISBN: 311072555X ISBN-13: 9783110725551 Publisher: Walter de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $199.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Foreign Language Study | Oceanic & Australian Languages |
| Physical Information: 1.31" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (2.57 lbs) 608 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |