@article{468972,
  author     = {Carlin, Eithne B.},
  journal    = {International Journal of American Linguistics},
  number     = {1},
  pages      = {1–31},
  title      = {Theticity in Trio (Cariban)},
  url        = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/657326},
  volume     = {77},
  year       = {2011},
  abstract   = {The majority, if not all, the Cariban languages of South America use a nonfinite verb construction, the so-called tı̈-Verbseconstruction, to express that an event, action, or state has occurred or has come into existence. Analyses of this clause type vary greatly, from passive to remote past to ergative. This paper gives an in-depth discussion of the tı̈-Verbseconstruction in Trio, a Cariban language spoken in Suriname, and presents evidence that this clause type does not constitute a bipartite predicate in the Aristotelian sense but that it is more adequately analyzed as a thetic predication which takes the event as a whole as its central focus. In addition, it is shown that this construction in Trio has a non-eyewitness evidential value.},
  doi        = {10.1086/657326},
  issn       = {0020-7071},
  lgcode     = {Trió [trio1238]},
  macro_area = {South America},
  src        = {haspelmath}
}