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By Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

this can be a entire reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a distant quarter within the northwest Amazonian jungle. Its audio system commonly marry a person talking a special language, and consequently most folk are fluent in 5 or 6 languages. due to this rampant multilingualism, Tariana combines a few gains inherited from the protolanguage with houses subtle from neighbouring yet unrelated Tucanoan languages. Typologically strange good points of the language comprise: an array of classifiers self sustaining of genders, advanced serial verbs, case marking counting on the topicality of a noun, and double marking of case and of quantity. Tariana has compulsory evidentiality: each sentence encompasses a targeted point indicating no matter if the knowledge used to be visible, heard, or inferred through the speaker, or even if the speaker received it from someone else. This grammar should be a priceless source-book for linguists and others drawn to ordinary languages.

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