Reflexive constructions in Kakataibo

The present paper presents a discussion of reflexive constructions in Kakataibo,
a Pano language spoken in Peruvian Amazonia. The language exhibits a
productive verbal reflexive, which is mainly used on transitive verbs, as well as a middle
marker which is also used to express reflexive meanings. Kakataibo emphatic pro-
nouns and the noun nami ‘body’ can also participate in reflexive constructions,
but require additional indicators of co-referentiality: emphatic pronouns require
the presence of the verbal reflexive marker, whereas the noun nami ‘body’ needs
a possessive marker and an emphatic clitic. Their need for extra markers of
coreference suggests that neither emphatic pronouns nor the noun nami ‘body’ are
fully grammatical reflexive nominals.