{"product_id":"a-grammar-of-coastal-marind-9783110725551","title":"A Grammar of Coastal Marind","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bruno Olsson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46451974045847,"sku":"9783110725551","price":19805.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783110725551.webp?v=1769139147","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-grammar-of-coastal-marind-9783110725551","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}