A Grammar of Coastal Marind
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Bruno Olsson
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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.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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List of maps, tables and figures
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Abbreviations and conventions
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1 Preliminaries
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2 Phonology
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3 Nominals, their morphology and derivation
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4 Pronouns and demonstratives
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5 Nominal gender
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6 Adpositions and particles
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7 The syntax of phrases
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8 Overview of the verb
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9 Participant indexing I: The Actor, Dative and Genitive prefixes
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10 Participant indexing II: Undergoer alternations
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11 The system of Verb Orientation
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12 Valence classes
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13 Valence-changing constructions
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14 Tense and aspect
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15 Mood, attitude and engagement
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16 Distribution of events in time and space
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17 The Auxiliary, copula clauses and light verbs
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18 Basic clausal syntax
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19 Non-declarative speech acts
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20 Combinations of clauses
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Appendix: Texts
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Bibliography
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Index
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