Affiliation:
1. Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (UMR 5569)
Abstract
Abstract
This paper provides a detailed description of the results of 24 constituency diagnostics, both morphosyntactic and
phonological, to Chácobo, a southern Pano language of the northern Bolivian Amazon. While it is often assumed that misalignments across the
domains that emerge from constituency diagnostics can be resolved by reference to a distinction between phonological and morphosyntactic
words, I argue that this is not true of Chácobo. Divergence is at least as high within phonological domains and morphosyntactic domains as
it is across them. While it is often assumed that domains tend to converge overall on a single wordhood candidate or that domain divergence
is marginal, I argue that this is not true of Chácobo. I present a cluster of methodologies that assess the motivation for a word
constituent as an empirical hypothesis, rather than treating it as an a priori assumption. No strong evidence for a word constituent emerges
from the Chácobo data. Theoretical and methodological implications are discussed.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Communication,Language and Linguistics
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