[etnolinguistica] Livro: A Grammar of Trio (Eithne Carlin)

[Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro]

Envio abaixo o anúncio da publicação do livro A Grammar of Trio, a Cariban Language of Suriname, de Eithne Carlin (Universiteit Leiden, Holanda). À colega Eliane Camargo (CELIA/CNRS, França), muito obrigado pela dica.
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Eithne B. Carlin. 2004. A Grammar of Trio, a Cariban Language of Suriname. [Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture, Vol. 55]. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang. XXXIV + 549 pp. num. fig. and tab.

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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.



Chapter 1 gives the geographical, historical and ethnographic setting of the Trio. Chapters 2 and 3 describe the phonological system and the lexical categories of the language.  Chapters 4 and 5 give a detailed analysis of the nominal and pronominal morphology. Chapters 6 and 7 deal with the postpositions and interrogatives respectively. Chapter 8 is a description of the verbal morphology, followed by the nominalizations in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 looks at the other word classes in the language, such as adverbs and gives a detailed description of temporal and spatial expressions. Chapter 11 looks at three different ways in which possession can be expressed in Trio, based on the temporal parameters of permanent, temporary and immediate possession. Chapter 12 looks at the syntax of the language and is followed in Chapter 13 by two shamanic texts and one mythological text. Throughout the grammar reference is made to the cultural and cosmological background of the Trio which facilitates a
 deeper  understanding of the language and its speakers.






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Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro
Museu Antropológico, Universidade Federal de Goiás
Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago
http://www.etnolinguistica.org







			
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