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The Munda Verb

Typological Perspectives
  • Gregory D. S. Anderson
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2007
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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.

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Gregory D. S. Anderson, Living Tongues Institute of Endangered Languages, Salem, Oregon, USA.

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    I-XVI

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    Chapter 1. The Munda language family

    1
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    Chapter 2. Voice and version in the Munda verb

    29
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    Chapter 3. Referent indexing in the Munda verb

    64
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    Chapter 4. Tense, aspect, mood and transitivity

    101
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    Chapter 5. Negation

    145
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    Chapter 6. Noun incorporation

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    Chapter 7. Switch reference

    212
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    Chapter 8. Auxiliary verb construction and other complex predicate types

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    References

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    Index

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eBook published on:
May 12, 2011
eBook ISBN:
9783110924251
Hardcover published on:
April 16, 2007
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110189650
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Front matter:
16
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306
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110924251
eBook ISBN: 9783110924251
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110189650
Keywords for this book
India/language; Munda/ethnology; ethnography; linguistic typology; historical linguistics
Audience(s) for this book
Research Libraries; Specialists in South Asian languages, Austroasiatic, and Munda Languages, Researchers in Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Verbal Categories, Morphosyntax, and Syntax
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