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A Grammar of Trio: A Cariban Language of Suriname
Contributor(s): Carlin, Eithne (Author), Carlin, Eithne B. (Editor), Ammon, Ulrich (Editor)
ISBN: 0820473588     ISBN-13: 9780820473581
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $91.15  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: November 2004
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Foreign Language Study | Native American Languages
- History | Latin America - General
Dewey: 498.422
LCCN: 2004057612
Series: Duisburger Arbeiten Zur Sprach- Und Kulturwissenschaft
Physical Information: 1 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
 
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Publisher Description:
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 fascimile 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.