| A Grammar of Trio: A Cariban Language of Suriname Contributor(s): Ammon, Ulrich (Editor), Carlin, Eithne B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631529007 ISBN-13: 9783631529003 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Binding Type: Hardcover Published: August 2004 Click for more in this series: Dask - Duisburger Arbeiten Zur Sprach- Und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers On Research In Langu |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Dewey: 498.422 |
| LCCN: 2004057612 |
| Series: Dask - Duisburger Arbeiten Zur Sprach- Und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers On Research In Langu |
| Physical Information: 554 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Features: Bibliography, Maps |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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 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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