Grammar of the great Andamanese language : an ethnolinguistic study.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abbi, Anvita.

Series:

Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages 4.

Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages, 1877-4083 ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Andamanese language--Grammar.

Andamanese language.

Ethnology--India--Andaman Islands (India).

Ethnology.

Andaman Islands (India)--Languages.

Andaman Islands (India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

LEIDEN : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 2015 Kenneth L. Hale Award! A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language is the first-ever detailed and exhaustive account of Great Andamanese, a moribund language spoken on the Andamanese Islands belonging to India in the Bay of Bengal. This important documentation covers all major areas of the grammar of Great Andamanese and gives us a first detailed look at this unique language, which is on the verge of extinction. Of particular interest here is the discussion of the body division class markers which play an important role throughout much of the grammar and which are documented in this volume for the first time. The volume will be of interest for general linguists from the fields of linguistic typology and areal linguistics as well as those interested in South Asian languages in general.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

I. The Andaman and the Great Andamanese

II. Phonetics and Phonology

III. Grammar Overview

IV. Word Formation Processes

V. Nouns and Noun Phrases Nouns

VI. Possession

VII. Pronouns, Pronominal and Object Clitics

VIII. Modification Including Temporal and Spatial Deixis

IX. The Verb and Verb Complex

X. Syntactic Organisation

Appendix A: Lico’s Genealogical Affiliation and Her Language Profile

Appendix B: An Acoustic Study of Problematic Laterals

Text: The Great Narrative of Phertajido

Bibliography

Index

Photographs of Contact Persons.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-296) and index.

ISBN:

9789004246126

9004246126

OCLC:

857276774

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004246126 DOI