LEADER 04050nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910457179403321 005 20210519204600.0 010 $a3-11-026419-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110264197 035 $a(CKB)2550000000073127 035 $a(EBL)799437 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000559823 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11373994 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000559823 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10568296 035 $a(PQKB)10107739 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC799437 035 $a(DE-B1597)172243 035 $a(OCoLC)769190320 035 $a(OCoLC)840439910 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110264197 035 $a(PPN)175522472 035 $a(PPN)175226075 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL799437 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10515762 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL628075 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000073127 100 $a20110823d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA grammar of Mian$b[electronic resource] /$fby Sebastian Fedden 210 $aBerlin $cDe Gruyter Mouton$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (630 p.) 225 1 $aMouton grammar library ;$v55 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-306-96824-0 311 0 $a3-11-026418-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tAcknowledgements --$tTable of contents --$tAbbreviations --$tChapter 1. The language and its speakers --$tChapter 2. Phonology --$tChapter 3. Word classes and grammatical relations --$tChapter 4. Gender --$tChapter 5. Classificatory verb prefixes --$tChapter 6. The noun phrase --$tChapter 7. The postpositional phrase --$tChapter 8. Verb morphology --$tChapter 9. Argument structure and the syntax of the clause --$tChapter 10. Question formation --$tChapter 11. Chaining constructions --$tChapter 12. Operator scope in clause chaining constructions --$tChapter 13. Embedding --$tAppendix I. Texts --$tAppendix II. Mian-English wordlist --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aMian is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language of the Ok family spoken in the Highlands fringe in western Papua New Guinea. Mian has approximately 1,400 speakers and is highly endangered. This grammar is the first comprehensive description of the language. It is based on primary field data consisting of a text corpus that covers different genres of the oral tradition, namely myths and ancestor stories, historical accounts, accounts of the initiation ritual, conversations, and procedural texts. The corpus was recorded by the author during a total of eleven months of field work from 2004 to 2008. The book provides a thorough description of all areas of Mian grammar and gives an in-depth analysis of many points of typological interest, such as the complex system of lexical tone, the interaction between a gender system and a system of classificatory prefixes on verbs of object movement, manipulation or handling, which allows the highlighting of certain characteristics of a referent in a given situation, the complex verbal morphology which allows fine-grained tense-aspect-mood distinctions, and a switch-reference system in which switch-reference suffixes on medial verbs are homophonous with and derived from suffixes functioning as tense and aspect markers in final verbs. The book is rounded off by a collection of traditional and contemporary texts (fully glossed and translated) and a word list comprising some 1,600 items, giving lexical tone, word class and meaning. 410 0$aMouton grammar library ;$v55. 606 $aMian language$xGrammar 606 $aPapuan languages 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMian language$xGrammar. 615 0$aPapuan languages. 676 $a499.12 700 $aFedden$b Sebastian$01049857 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457179403321 996 $aA grammar of Mian$92479187 997 $aUNINA