Abstract
The unclassified Kwaza language of Brazil has a number of unique properties that are of importance for the evaluation of our general assumptions about what is possible in languages. One of those special properties is the occurrence of morphologically based reduplication, which is not determined by phonotactic units but by morpheme boundaries. In this type of reduplication the repetition of bound morphemes is not necessarily an instance of recursive application of a morphological operation. Instead, it represents a separate morphological process the result of which cannot be predicted on the basis of constituent operations. So far, this phenomenon has not been attested unambiguously in any other language, Amazonian or otherwise.
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