The Munda Verb : : Typological Perspectives / / Gregory D. S. Anderson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Anderson, Gregory D. S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 174
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Other title: I-XVI --; Chapter 1. The Munda language family --; Chapter 2. Voice and version in the Munda verb --; Chapter 3. Referent indexing in the Munda verb --; Chapter 4. Tense, aspect, mood and transitivity --; Chapter 5. Negation --; Chapter 6. Noun incorporation --; Chapter 7. Switch reference --; Chapter 8. Auxiliary verb construction and other complex predicate types --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110924251; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110277135; 9783110277197; 9783110277166; 9783110276909
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110924251
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gregory D. S. Anderson.

The Munda Verb is a unique book on the typology of the verb in the Munda language family, and the first of its kind on any language family of the Indian subcontinent. The author painstakingly works out nearly all the details of the morphology of the verb in each modern Munda language and offers a description of the typology of the Munda verbal systems both individually and collectively. The author uses a large amount of data from modern Munda languages, as well as an extensive cross-linguistic corpus offering comparisons from genetically unrelated languages such as Fox, Amele, Kinyarwanda, Luyia, Takelma, Tonkawa, Burushaski, or Tangut where relevant. Points of note include the unusual incorporation system of South Munda Sora and the elaborate and complex system of verb agreement attested in the Kherwarian Munda languages. Further, the author discusses models for a Proto-Munda verbal system and problems in its reconstruction at various points throughout. This book is of great interest to specialists working on the Munda languages, South Asian linguistics, language typology, historical linguistics and to scholars of both morphology as well as syntax.