Morphology at the Interfaces: Reduplication and Noun Incorporation in Uto-Aztecan (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today)

This monograph is written from a specific perspective on the scientific study of language, a position that holds that linguistic theory must be held accountable to the diversity of the world’s languages. In this view, theoretical hypotheses about the nature of language, whether synchronic or diachronic, must be tested against a wide range of languages and language types. This position entails what Ken Hale has called the “the confirmatory function of linguistic diversity” (Hale 2000: 168).