| A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language: An Ethnolinguistic Study Contributor(s): Abbi, Anvita (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004235272 ISBN-13: 9789004235274 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $165.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation - Foreign Language Study | Southeast Asian Languages (see Also Vietnamese) |
| Dewey: 495.9 |
| LCCN: 2013018345 |
| Series: Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.5" (1.40 lbs) 332 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |