The verbalizers in Trio (Cariban): a semantic description

Abstract

"Trio has a range of verbalizers, many with aspectual meanings, which are suffixed to a nominal to form a verb. Some of the verbalizers are more productive than others; some result in a transitive, others in an intransitive verb. This paper deals in particular with the semantics of the verbalizers showing how much cultural information can be gleaned from the specific semantics of both the verbalizers and the resultant verbs"