22.4105, Books: Anthro Ling/Lang Documentation/Typology: Fedden

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Date: 20-Oct-2011
From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: A Grammar of Mian: Fedden

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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:38:16
From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: A Grammar of Mian: Fedden

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Title: A Grammar of Mian 
Series Title: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 55  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/cont/fb/var/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110264180-1 

Author: Sebastian Fedden

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110264197 Pages: 604 Price: Europe EURO 149.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110264180 Pages: 604 Price: Europe EURO 149.95

Abstract:

Mian is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language of the Ok family spoken in 
the Highlands fringe in western Papua New Guinea. Mian has approximately 
1,400 speakers and is highly endangered. This grammar is the first 
comprehensive description of the language. It is based on primary field data 
consisting of a text corpus that covers different genres of the oral tradition, 
namely myths and ancestor stories, historical accounts, accounts of the 
initiation ritual, conversations, and procedural texts. The corpus was recorded 
by the author during a total of eleven months of field work from 2004 to 2008. 
The book provides a thorough description of all areas of Mian grammar and 
gives an in-depth analysis of many points of typological interest, such as the 
complex system of lexical tone, the interaction between a gender system and 
a system of classificatory prefixes on verbs of object movement, 
manipulation or handling, which allows the highlighting of certain 
characteristics of a referent in a given situation, the complex verbal 
morphology which allows fine-grained tense-aspect-mood distinctions, and a 
switch-reference system in which switch-reference suffixes on medial verbs 
are homophonous with and derived from suffixes functioning as tense and 
aspect markers in final verbs. The book is rounded off by a collection of 
traditional and contemporary texts (fully glossed and translated) and a word 
list comprising some 1,600 items, giving lexical tone, word class and 
meaning. 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Endangered Languages
                     Language Documentation
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Mian (mpt)

Written In: English  (eng)

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