Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Part 1: Background
6. 1 The Uto-Aztecan Language Family 1
7. 2 Linguistic Theory and Historical (Morpho)Syntax 17
8. Part II: Prosodic Morphology
9. 3 Prosodic Morphology and Constraint-Ranking in Uto-Aztecan Historical Phonology 33
10. 4 On Reduplication and Syntax 69
11. Part III: Derivational Morphology
12. 5 Noun Incorporation and Denominal Verbs 87
13. 6 Noun Incorporation in Uto-Aztecan 117
14. 7 On the Syntax of Noun Incorporation: Incorporation and conflation, move and merge 163
15. Part IV: Change in Morphological Type
16. 8 Diachrony and Polysynthesis in Nahuatl 205
17. Conclusion 229
18. References 231
19. Language Index 251
20. Subject Index 255