A Grammar of Coastal Marind
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2021]
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| Series: | Mouton grammar library ;
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
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