Abstract
Great Andamanese constitutes alongside Ongan one of the two indigenous language families of the Andaman Islands. The phonological typology of the Great Andamanese languages includes a number of features of areal interest, including retroflex consonants (characteristic of South Asia) and lack of phonemic fricatives (reconstructed for Proto-Dravidian). Its morphosyntactic typology has some unremarkable features from a global typological perspective, such as verb-final clause order combined with postpositions and possessor-before-possessed but with postnominal attributive adjectives, alongside highly unusual features such as: somatic prefixes; several series of personal pronouns whose choice depends not only on grammatical relation/semantic role but also, for instance, on clause type; negation of a verbal clause by expressing it as the non-finite subject of a negative copular clause; and root ellipsis.
Grammatical abbreviations in morphological glosses
- 1, 2, 3
1st, 2nd, 3rd person
- A
transitive subject
- abs
absolutive
- all
allative
- appr
apprehensive
- att.getter
attention-getter
- ben
benefactive
- caus
causative
- coll
collective
- cop
(affirmative) copula
- CS
copula subject
- dat
dative
- def
definite (article)
- dem
demonstrative
- dist
distal
- E
extension to core
- emph
emphatic
- foc
focus
- hon
honorific
- imm.pst
immediate past
- imp
imperative
- impfv
imperfective
- iness
inessive
- intdub
interrogative-dubitative
- interj
interjection
- loc
locative
- neg
negative
- neg.cop
negative copula
- nmlz
nominalizer
- npst
non-past
- O
object
- pl, pl.
plural
- plup
pluperfect
- poss
possessive
- pret
preterite
- prev
preverb
- prog
progressive
- prox
proximal
- purp
purposive
- refl
reflexive
- rel
relative
- S
intransitive subject
- sg, sg.
singular
- sp
somatic prefix
- stat
stative
- wh
constituent question
- y/n
polarity question
- zroot
zero (or omitted) root
In addition, we use the standard phonological abbreviations C (consonant) and V (vowel), and sp. for species.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Retroflexion in South Asia: Typological, genetic, and areal patterns
- Typological profile of the Great Andamanese family
- Hierarchical and accusative alignment of Verbal Person Marking in Trans-Himalayan
- Profiling Indo-Aryan in the Hindukush-Karakoram: A preliminary study of micro-typological patterns
- Book Reviews
- Hans Henrich Hock: Vedic studies: Language, texts, culture, and philosophy. Proceedings of the 15th World Sanskrit Conference
- Helmut Humbach and Klaus Faiss: Avestica
- Corrigendum
- Corrigendum