%0 Book
%A Eithne B. Carlin
%D 2021
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T A Grammar of Trio
%B A Cariban Language of Suriname
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1098118
%X 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.
%K Trio-Sprache, Grammatik, Suriname, North Amazonia, Cognitive grammar, Linguistics, Word structure, Native America, Anthropolical linguistics
%G English