darken, for linguistics generates new terminology at a mind-boggling rate. There are at least three things to which a reader should find access—in addition to the results of the work undertaken—in a research publication: the author’s presuppositions, theoretical perspective and methodology. This is because the only means a reader has of assessing the trustworthiness and applicability of a researcher’s conclusions is by evaluating them through that researcher’s approach to the data. The problem, however,