The coastal marind language
This thesis is a descriptive grammar of Coastal Marind, an Anim language of Southern New Guinea. The description of the language is based on 8 hours of transcribed video recordings collected during ca. 13 months of field research in Merauke (Indonesia) and in nearby Marind-speaking villages. The the...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Theses and Dissertations |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
2018
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73235 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| id |
sg-ntu-dr.10356-73235 |
|---|---|
| record_format |
dspace |
| spelling |
sg-ntu-dr.10356-732352020-10-28T08:52:04Z The coastal marind language Olsson, Bruno Frantisek Kratochvil School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Language::Linguistics This thesis is a descriptive grammar of Coastal Marind, an Anim language of Southern New Guinea. The description of the language is based on 8 hours of transcribed video recordings collected during ca. 13 months of field research in Merauke (Indonesia) and in nearby Marind-speaking villages. The thesis describes phonology (Chapter 2), word classes (Chapter 3), nominals (Chapters 4-6), various categories associated with the verb (Chapters 7-15), basic syntax (Chapter 16) and non-affirmative speech acts (Chapter 17). Some of the descriptively and theoretically most challenging issues in Coastal Marind are its complex verb morphology and the structure of the verb, the gender system, and an unusual system of focus marking on the verb ('Verb Orientation'), all of which are described in detail. Doctor of Philosophy (HSS) 2018-01-29T08:44:10Z 2018-01-29T08:44:10Z 2018 Thesis Olsson, B. (2018). The coastal marind language. Doctoral thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73235 10.32657/10356/73235 en 594 p. application/pdf |
| institution |
Nanyang Technological University |
| building |
NTU Library |
| continent |
Asia |
| country |
Singapore Singapore |
| content_provider |
NTU Library |
| collection |
DR-NTU |
| language |
English |
| topic |
DRNTU::Humanities::Language::Linguistics |
| spellingShingle |
DRNTU::Humanities::Language::Linguistics Olsson, Bruno The coastal marind language |
| description |
This thesis is a descriptive grammar of Coastal Marind, an Anim language of Southern New Guinea. The description of the language is based on 8 hours of transcribed video recordings collected during ca. 13 months of field research in Merauke (Indonesia) and in nearby Marind-speaking villages. The thesis describes phonology (Chapter 2), word classes (Chapter 3), nominals (Chapters 4-6), various categories associated with the verb (Chapters 7-15), basic syntax (Chapter 16) and non-affirmative speech acts (Chapter 17). Some of the descriptively and theoretically most challenging issues in Coastal Marind are its complex verb morphology and the structure of the verb, the gender system, and an unusual system of focus marking on the verb ('Verb Orientation'), all of which are described in detail. |
| author2 |
Frantisek Kratochvil |
| author_facet |
Frantisek Kratochvil Olsson, Bruno |
| format |
Theses and Dissertations |
| author |
Olsson, Bruno |
| author_sort |
Olsson, Bruno |
| title |
The coastal marind language |
| title_short |
The coastal marind language |
| title_full |
The coastal marind language |
| title_fullStr |
The coastal marind language |
| title_full_unstemmed |
The coastal marind language |
| title_sort |
coastal marind language |
| publishDate |
2018 |
| url |
http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73235 |
| _version_ |
1683493938171740160 |