This is This, and Here Are Some Examples: Verbalisers and Extensions in Shona

Abstract

After a brief discussion of the goals of scientific theory, especially in Linguistics, the article explores the scientifically arrived at morphological categories, 'verbaliser' and 'extension' in Shona. It reviews existing descriptionptive accounts of these categories and suggests that, if they were treated, as members of a single category rather than as they have been treated traditionally, a variety of previously unanswerable questions could begin to be addressed through new research.