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A Grammar of Trio: A Cariban Language of Suriname

A Grammar of Trio: A Cariban Language of Suriname

Carlin, Eithne B.
Ammon, Ulrich

Hardcover

Series: Dask - Duisburger Arbeiten Zur Sprach- Und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers On Research In Langu, Book 55

Grammar & StyleGeneral Latin American HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

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ISBN10: 3631529007
ISBN13: 9783631529003
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Aug 10 2004
Pages: 554
Language: English
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.

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