A Grammar of Coastal Marind / / 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 87
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XXI, 587 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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