32.2510, Books: A Grammar of Coastal Marind: Olsson

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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 21:47:00
From: Birgit Sievert [Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com]
Subject: A Grammar of Coastal Marind: Olsson

 


Title: A Grammar of Coastal Marind 
Series Title: Mouton Grammar Library  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110747065/html 


Author: Bruno Olsson

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110747065 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 149.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110725551 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 149.95


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Marind (mrz)


Written In: English  (eng)

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