Verbal Lexical Patterns in the Expression of Motion Events in Yaqui Language

Authors

  • Denisse Fiordalizo Martínez Martínez University of Sonora
  • Zarina Estrada Fernández University of Sonora, National Council of Science and Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n80a16

Keywords:

Yaqui language, motion verbs, motion events, lexical patterns

Abstract

In this work, we show that in Yaqui language it is possible to distinguish four lexical patterns: i) motion and path; ii) motion and manner; iii) motion, path and cause; and iv) motion, path and figure. Likewise, we determine that the occurrence of lexical patterns has implications in the syntactic structure of movement events, because the events with lexical patterns i), ii), and iv) have intransitive syntactic structures, where the figure corresponds to the subject of the sentence. Meanwhile, the events with a lexical pattern iii) have transitive syntactic structures, where the figure corresponds to the direct object.

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Author Biographies

Denisse Fiordalizo Martínez Martínez, University of Sonora

Master in Linguistics from the University of Sonora (Mexico) and, currently, student of the Doctorate in Humanities at the same University. Martínez Martínez has dedicated his academic research to the study of the syntax and semantics of the Yaqui indigenous language of the Pótam and Vícam region, located in the south of the state of Sonora, Mexico

Zarina Estrada Fernández, University of Sonora, National Council of Science and Technology

Doctor in Linguistics from the University of Arizona (United States). Since 1973, she has been a researcher professor of ​​the Department of Linguistics of the University of Sonora (Mexico). Member of the National System of Researchers - SIN, of the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt). Her academic research has been dedicated to the study of indigenous Mexican languages, specifically the languages ​​of the Yuto-Aztec family of the northern branch. Her lines of research are morphosyntax, syntactic complexity, intragenetic typology, lexicography and ethnocultural studies and oral tradition.

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Published

2021-07-30

How to Cite

Martínez Martínez, D. F., & Estrada Fernández, Z. (2021). Verbal Lexical Patterns in the Expression of Motion Events in Yaqui Language. Lingüística Y Literatura, 42(80), 257–274. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n80a16