Constituency in Northern Chaco Mocoví (Guaycuruan, Argentina)

This chapter explores 22 different constituency tests applied to the verbal planar structure in Northern Chaco Mocoví, the northern-most Mocoví speech community in Argentina. It is shown that the verbal subspans selected by different tests display divergences and convergences within and across phonological and morphosyntactic domains. Regardless of the divergences, there are recurrent convergences, identifying minimal and maximal subspans. I argue then that those recurrent subspans can be interpreted as the best exemplars of a word-like constituent in this language.