TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eithne B. Carlin
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - A Grammar of Trio
T2  - A Cariban Language of Suriname
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1098118
N2  - 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.
KW  - Trio-Sprache, Grammatik, Suriname, North Amazonia, Cognitive grammar, Linguistics, Word structure, Native America, Anthropolical linguistics
LA  - English
ER  -