This paper is a first detailed study of the ethnozoological nomenclature in Urarina, an Amazonian isolate language spoken in Loreto, Peru. Based on a corpus of more than 250 lexical items gathered through fieldwork, we describe and analyze the main linguistic strategies used in the formation of Urarina animal names. As a result, eight naming strategies are proposed for Urarina animal nomenclature, and the relationship between these strategies and the formation of simple and complex lexemes is discussed. The paper contributes not only to the documentation and description of an Amazonian isolate, but also to the comparison, both typological and areal, with other languages of the region.

This paper is a first detailed study of the ethnozoological nomenclature in Urarina, an Amazonian isolate language spoken in Loreto, Peru. Based on a corpus of more than 250 lexical items gathered through fieldwork, we describe and analyze the main linguistic strategies used in the formation of Urarina animal names. As a result, eight naming strategies are proposed for Urarina animal nomenclature, and the relationship between these strategies and the formation of simple and complex lexemes is discussed. The paper contributes not only to the documentation and description of an Amazonian isolate, but also to the comparison, both typological and areal, with other languages of the region.

This paper is a first detailed study of the ethnozoological nomenclature in Urarina, an Amazonian isolate language spoken in Loreto, Peru. Based on a corpus of more than 250 lexical items gathered through fieldwork, we describe and analyze the main linguistic strategies used in the formation of Urarina animal names. As a result, eight naming strategies are proposed for Urarina animal nomenclature, and the relationship between these strategies and the formation of simple and complex lexemes is discussed. The paper contributes not only to the documentation and description of an Amazonian isolate, but also to the comparison, both typological and areal, with other languages of the region.

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 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 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,...

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