Re: Trivalent logic in Aymara?

Pablo Flores wrote:


>Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...> wrote:
>/snip/
>
>> From the same book ("Describing Morphosyntax" by Thomas Payne), here
>> are some samples from another language with the most complex =
evidentiality
>> system that Payne ever saw. It is Tuyuca, a Tucanoan language with an
>> evidential paradigm including: visible, non-visible, inferred, =
hearsay,
>> and general knowledge.
>/snipped neat examples/
>
>I like those categories. I'll think of some more when I have time. :)
>Where's the Tucanoan family spoken?
>

Around the Caribbean, but I'm not sure where _exactly_ they are=20
nowadays. But I hear there are still Tucanoans in Florida, used to=20
be a few in the islands, and are still quite a few around the=20
northern fringes of the north-eastern coasts of South America. It=20
is also said that the Tucanoans where the first to colonize the=20
islands of the Caribbean. They came from the south where they=20
applied their knowledge of navigating large rivers to navigating=20
the Carribean. However, the more aggressive and cannibalistic=20
Caribs began to displace quite a few of them just before the=20
Spaniards arrived. The Caribs gradually moved north hopping from=20
island to island and eating all the Tucanoan inhabitants on their=20
way. That probably explains why there are a lot of Carib Indians=20
between two widely separated Tucanoan areas of Florida and the
Venezuelan area.

-kristian- 8)