A Grammar of Coastal Marind

By:

Bruno Olsson

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Mouton Grammar Library [Mgl]

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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 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 Biography:

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

Release date Australia

December 19th, 2022

Author

Bruno Olsson

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

89 Tables, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

608

Series

Mouton Grammar Library [Mgl]

ISBN-13

9783111120775

Product ID

36061264

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