@article{468674,
  author     = {Biondi, Roberto Zariquiey and Fleck, David W.},
  journal    = {International Journal of American Linguistics},
  number     = {3},
  pages      = {385–409},
  title      = {Body-Part Prefixation in Kashibo-Kakataibo: Synchronic or Diachronic Derivation?},
  url        = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/665918},
  volume     = {78},
  year       = {2012},
  abstract   = {Most Panoan languages have closed sets of about 30 monosyllabic forms that attach phonologically to the front of nouns, adjectives, and verbs. These forms, mainly designating body-part notions and semantic extensions of these, appear at first glance to be synchronically derived from polysyllabic body-part noun roots. This paper offers the first detailed study of the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties of prefixation in Kashibo-Kakataibo. In contrast to other authors' analyses of Panoan prefixes, we present evidence to show that prefixes in Kashibo-Kakataibo are synchronically independent morphemes, rather than allomorphs of body-part nouns. Subsequently, we present the diachronic scenarios that can account for the perplexing formal and semantic similarities between body-part prefixes and body-part nouns in Kashibo-Kakataibo},
  doi        = {10.1086/665918},
  issn       = {0020-7071},
  lgcode     = {Cashibo-Cacataibo [cash1251]},
  macro_area = {South America},
  src        = {haspelmath}
}