Abstract
Abstract Extract 1. There always seems to be more to say about the phonological development of the various attested Uto-Aztecan (UA) languages from Proto-Uto-Aztecan (PUA). Since the groundbreaking work of Sapir (1913, 1915), much progress has been made in many areas of UA studies, among them the description of individual languages, the collection of sets of cognates or possible cognates and the discovery of a number of sound laws (e.g., Voegelin, Voegelin, and Hale 1963, Miller 1967, 1988), and the beginnings of a comparative morphology (e.g., Langacker 1977, Heath 1977, 1978) which Sapir had promised but never wrote. But the goal of formulating a precise phonological system for the proto-language and a rigorous account of its developments in each of the daughter languages has not yet been fully accomplished, not even for the most widely studied UA language, Nahuatl (together with the other Aztecan dialects), 2 Unless otherwise indicated, all Nahuatl forms are from Karttunen (1983), Pochutec from Boas (1...
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