24.1270, Books: A sketch grammar of Meryam Mir: Piper, Dixon (Ed)

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:02:43
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: A sketch grammar of Meryam Mir: Piper, Dixon (Ed)

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Title: A sketch grammar of Meryam Mir 
Series Title: Outstanding grammars from Australia 14  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu

Book URL: http://www.lincom-shop.eu 

Author: Nick Piper
Editor: R. M. W. Dixon

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862884377 Pages: 240 Price: Europe EURO 72.80

Abstract:

Mer, or Murray Island in the Torres Strait, is known to most Australians as
the place where the notion of terra nullius at the time of European settlement
was challenged and won in the courts of Australia. It is the language of Mer
and its neighbours, Erub (Darnley Is.) and Ugar (Stephen Is.) which is
described in this book. The language is called Meriam or Meryam Mir, where mir
means language. It is of great interest to scholars as it is related to Papuan
languages spoken to the north whereas the other indigenous language spoken in
the Torres Strait is related to Australian Aboriginal languages spoken to the
south.

Meryam is a verb final language with an agglutinating morphology. The
morphology includes case inflections and crossreference markers for the core
syntactic roles. The crossreference markers also provide information about
their number, singular, dual, paucal or plural, and to some degree, about
person. Verbs are divided into two basic categories: atelic stative events,
which are ongoing, and telic active events, which have a termination point. In
typological terms, Meryam can be regarded as a double-marking language.

Piper has maintained her interest with the Eastern Islands of Torres Strait
since the compilation of this sketch grammar. She has collaborated with Meriam
for publications (Passi & Piper, 1994), the delivery of a language course for
Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Education as well as interpreted for a
Meriam witness for the Torres Strait sea claim.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Papuan

Subject Language(s): Meru (mer)

Written In: English  (eng)

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