La transitividad morfosintáctica lexicalizada en urarina (aislada)

This paper examines lexicalized morphosyntactic transitivity in Urarina, a language isolate from Peru, within the typological framework proposed by Payne (2009). It is proposed that transitivity is best seen as a scalar category in different levels of a lexical-clausal organization and that verbal r...

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Autores: Peña Torrejón, Jaime G., Silva Villegas, Gema
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:Perú
Institución:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:PUCP-Institucional
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/204028
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/lexis/article/view/31650/27778
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14657/204028
https://doi.org/10.18800/lexis.202501.008
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Lexicalized transitivity
Urarina
Valency
Argument structure
Transitividad lexicalizada
Valencia verbal
Estructura argumental
https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.02.06
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Sumario:This paper examines lexicalized morphosyntactic transitivity in Urarina, a language isolate from Peru, within the typological framework proposed by Payne (2009). It is proposed that transitivity is best seen as a scalar category in different levels of a lexical-clausal organization and that verbal roots of languages like Urarina can be categorized in more specific terms than only a dichotomic transitive/intransitive distinction. Based on their morphosyntactic behavior, we identify at least four types of lexicalized transitivity and six different verb subclasses on account of the typological framework proposed for Urarina. For this purpose, we describe how roots, stems, and affixes involved in increasing or decreasing valence work. It is argued that Urarina presents a very rigorous organization of its transitivity at the lexical level that mostly remains at the clausal level. In this way, this framework has allowed us to show in greater detail the gradual nature of transitivity and its expression across different levels and constructions in the Urarina language.