The Munda Verb

by Anderson, Gregory D. S.

• ISBN13: 9783110189650
• ISBN10: 3110189658
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-28
• Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

Summary

This book - the first of its kind on any language family of the Indian subcontinent - treats the typology of the verb in the Munda language family. It presents details of the verb morphology in each Munda language, including systems of agreement, tense/aspect/mood categories, noun incorporation, auxiliary verbs, negation, and transitivity. An exhaustive cross-linguistic corpus is used for comparison.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
List of abbreviations	p. xiv
The Munda language family	p. 1
Overview	p. 1
Classification of the Munda language family	p. 1
Sociolinguistic data	p. 4
A brief history of the study of the Munda language	p. 8
Overview of the phonology, nominal morphology, and syntax of Munda	p. 10
Voice and version in the Munda verb	p. 29
Introduction	p. 29
Causative	p. 29
Reciprocal	p. 37
Reflexive and passive	p. 40
Benefactive/applicative	p. 48
Version	p. 55
Summary	p. 62
Referent indexing in the Munda verb	p. 64
Introduction	p. 64
Subject marking in Munda	p. 64
Object marking in the Munda verb	p. 83
Possessor raising	p. 92
Multiple referent marking in Munda	p. 97
Summary	p. 99
Tense, aspect, mood and transitivity	p. 101
Tense, aspect, mood and transitivity	p. 101
Tense/aspect/mood marking in South Munda languages	p. 101
Tense/aspect/mood marking in North Munda languages	p. 112
Mood	p. 135
On non-finite formations in Munda	p. 141
Summary	p. 143
Negation	p. 145
Overview	p. 145
The category negative [NEG] in South Munda	p. 145
Negative in North Munda	p. 161
Summary	p. 163
Noun incorporation	p. 165
Introduction	p. 165
On the theoretical background of noun incorporation	p. 167
Munda noun incorporation	p. 174
Noun incorporation in other South Munda languages	p. 196
North Munda	p. 201
Munda, Khasi, and Nicobarese: parallels in noun incorporation	p. 204
Summary	p. 210
Switch reference	p. 213
Introduction	p. 213
Switch reference in Gutob, Remo, and Gta?	p. 214
Switch reference in other Munda languages	p. 221
Summary	p. 226
Auxiliary verb constructions and other complex predicate types	p. 228
Introduction	p. 228
Functional types of auxiliary verb constructions	p. 229
Univerbation or fused AVCs in Munda	p. 239
Inflectional types in auxiliary verb constructions	p. 250
Serial verb formations and ECHO forms in Munda languages	p. 264
Summary	p. 268
References	p. 269
Index	p. 290
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