Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 26 Seiten
Reihe: Languages of the World
Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 26 Seiten
Reihe: Languages of the World
ISBN: 978-3-89586-914-3
Verlag: LINCOM
This study presents original data illustrating previously undescribed reduplicative patterns found in Tiriyó, a Cariban language spoken in Northern Brazil; this is the first time that reduplication in a Cariban language is described in detail. One of the patterns is simpler, and its synchronic cases of variation suggest a certain path of historical evolution. For the other pattern, the complexity of the several subcases appear to indicate antiquity and make formal accounts significantly more difficult.