A Grammar of Trio: A Cariban Language of Suriname (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783631529003)

Vendor: Ulrich Ammon
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Format: Hardcover
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A Grammar of Trio: A Cariban Language of Suriname

$185.65

A Grammar of Trio: A Cariban Language of Suriname

$185.65
Format: Hardcover
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This is a comprehensive descriptive grammar of Trio, a Cariban language, spoken in the remote rainforest of Suriname and along the border in Brazil. Typologically interesting features of Trio include a basic word order Object-Verb-Subject and a system of evidentiality that expresses whether or not the speaker was eye-witness to an event. Trio has several grammatical morphemes that mirror the group's conceptualization of the world of the visible and the invisible in which they live; one is a facsimile marker that expresses that the denotee of a noun is manifestly but not intrinsically that denotee; the role of the individual in contributing to a harmonious collective, recognized by anthropologists as a salient aspect of Amazonian life, is expressed by two responsibility clitics. This grammar will be a valuable source-book for linguists, anthropologists, and everyone interested in the finer points of Guianan-Amazonian languages.

Author: Ulrich Ammon,Eithne B. Carlin
ISBN-10: 3631529007
ISBN-13: 9783631529003
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2004
Pages: 554
Format: Hardcover
By Ulrich Ammon
By Ulrich Ammon
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The Author: Eithne B. Carlin, born in Northern Ireland, studied Irish, German, and Linguistics in Trinity College Dublin, and German Language and Literature at several German universities. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Cologne in 1992 with a thesis on So, a moribund language of Uganda. She has been doing research on the Amerindian languages of the Guianas since 1996 and co-edited the Atlas of the Languages of Suriname (2002). Since 2003 the author has been documenting the moribund Arawakan language Mawayana. She currently works as lecturer in the department of Languages and Cultures of Native America at Leiden University.

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