Abstract
0. Goals and Language Background This paper presents some unusual distributional data about the possessive construction in Iquito, together with one analysis that accounts for the data. I argue that possessums in Iquito behave much like clitics. However, I would reject any notion that a morpheme must either be a clitic or a free form, or either a clitic or an affix, as if one had dichotomies to choose from. Instead, I assume that what we actually see in language is a continuum or cline from free form to clitic to affix (Brown 2004a), and I argue that Iquito possessums occupy an intermediate status between a free form and a clitic. Iquito (Zaparoan) is spoken by about 26 individuals in a small community located in Amazonian Peru. This paper presents data from two summers of my fieldwork with the Iquito people as part of the Iquito Language Documentation and Revitalization Project.ˆ
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