Constituency and Wordhood in Kiowa

This chapter builds on previous work (Miller 2015, 2018, 2020) and investigates
wordhood in Kiowa, a polysynthetic Tanoan language spoken in Oklahoma, with
a focus on the verbal predicate and clause. Using the Planar-Fractal Method
 (Tallman 2021), five candidates for wordhood are identified using twelve diagnostics
(five morphosyntactic, six phonological, and deviations from biuniqueness). The
candidates are identified by the convergence of both morphosyntactic and
phonological criteria, and they are largely expected given previous analysis of the
prosodic structure of Kiowa (Miller 2015, 2018, 2020).