A sketch grammar of Meryam Mir
- Description:
- Meryam Mir is a Papuan language spoken in the Torres Strait, that stretch of water which lies between Australia and Papua New Guinea. It has an A-O-V or S-V word order and an agglutinating morphology. Case inflections are suffixed to nominals to mark their syntactic role in the clause. Markers cross-referencing the syntactic arguments of the clause are affixed to the verb indicating number and, to some degree, person. In typological terms, the language can be regarded as a double-marking language. The following study is a sketch grammar of t...
- Display date:
- 2016
- Location:
- Papua New Guinea
- Format:
- thesis(masters)
- Collections:
- Australian National University Library
- Content partner:
- Australian National University Library
- Availability:
- Not specified
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