Eithne B CarlinEithne B Carlin was born and raised in Northern Ireland. She has studied at Trinity College Dublin and received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1993 from the University of Cologne, Germany, with a thesis on So, a moribund language of Uganda. She has beendoing research on the Cariban and Arawakan languages of the Guianas, in particular those of Suriname, since 1996. She currently holds a tenured position of lecturer in the Department Languages and Cultures of Native America, in the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, the Netherlands. Read More Read Less