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Directives in Kakataibo and Iskonawa in a Panoan comparative perspective

In this talk, I present a discussion of directives in two Panoan languages which belong to two different subgroups within the family: Kakataibo and Iskonawa. It will be shown that these two languages exhibit radically different grammatical strategies for the encoding of the various types of directive constructions. These include various verbal morphemes/sentence clitics, the use of bare verbal bases and the employment of auxiliaries. Towards the end of the talk, the Iskonawa and Kakataibo data will be looked at from a broader Panoan perspective. It will be proposed that most of the directive constructions found in Kakataibo and Iskonawa are in fact innovative and are the result of various historical developments. Directives, indeed, might be one of the functional domains with more structural diversity among Panoan languages.