A Grammar of Coastal Marind / / Bruno Olsson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• VerfasserIn: Olsson, Bruno,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 87
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXI, 587 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; List of maps, tables and figures --; Abbreviations and conventions --; 1 Preliminaries --; 2 Phonology --; 3 Nominals, their morphology and derivation --; 4 Pronouns and demonstratives --; 5 Nominal gender --; 6 Adpositions and particles --; 7 The syntax of phrases --; 8 Overview of the verb --; 9 Participant indexing I: The Actor, Dative and Genitive prefixes --; 10 Participant indexing II: Undergoer alternations --; 11 The system of Verb Orientation --; 12 Valence classes --; 13 Valence-changing constructions --; 14 Tense and aspect --; 15 Mood, attitude and engagement --; 16 Distribution of events in time and space --; 17 The Auxiliary, copula clauses and light verbs --; 18 Basic clausal syntax --; 19 Non-declarative speech acts --; 20 Combinations of clauses --; Appendix: Texts --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110747065; 9783110750720; 9783110750706; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754117; 9783110753882
• ISSN: 0933-7636
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110747065
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bruno Olsson.

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.