The aim of this paper is to analyze the postposition incorporation (Baker 1988) into the verb of the Panará language (Jê family, Macro-Jê stock) to form applicative constructions (Nakamura 1997). The focus are the constructions with incoporated postposition for which a phonetic copy is kept. This analysis is supported by the proposal of Nunes (1999, 2001) according to which the phonetic realization of the trace of the incorporated postposition does not compromise the linearization of the structure because the postposition and the host verb can be analyzed as one word in the phonogical component.
Indigenous Languages; Panará; Applicative; Linearization of chains
