This 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.
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