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.
Author: Bruno Olsson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 12/19/2022
Pages: 608
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.12lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.24d
ISBN13: 9783111120775
ISBN10: 3111120775
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | General
- Foreign Language Study | Oceanic & Australian Languages
About the Author
Bruno Olsson, Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.