The Oxford handbook of polysynthesis / edited by Michael Fortescue, Marianne Mithun, Nicholas Evans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fortescue, Michael D., editor.

Mithun, Marianne, editor.

Evans, Nicholas, 1956- editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Oxford handbooks in linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Polysynthesis.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Handbook of polysynthesis

Polysynthesis

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. These languages and the problems they raise for linguistic analyses have long featured prominently in language descriptions, and yet the essence of polysynthesis remains under discussion, right down to whether it delineates a distinct, coherent type, rather than an assortment of frequently co-occurring traits.

Contents:

Introduction / Michael Fortescue, Marianne Mithun, Nicholas Evans

The anthropological setting of polysynthesis / Peter Trudgill

What are the limits of polysynthesis? / Michael Fortescue

The Arctic and Sub-Arctic / Michael Fortescue

Continental North America / Marianne Mithun

Polysynthetic structures in languages of Lowland Amazonia / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Northern Australia / Nicholas Evans

Polysynthesis and head-marking / Johanna Nichols

Papua New Guinea / William Foley

Patterns of innovation and retention in templatic polysynthesis / Edward J. Vajda

The diachrony of complex verbs in Ute / Tom Givón

Polysynthesis and language contact / Hein van der Voort, Peter Bakker

Language obsolescence in polysynthetic languages / Nikolai Vakhtin, Ekaterina Gruzdeva

Polysynthesis in the acquisition of Eskimo languages / Shanley Allen

The acquisition of Murrinh-Patha / Bill Forshaw, Lucinda Davidson, Barbara Kelly, Rachel Nordlinger, Gillian Wigglesworth, Joe Blythe

The acquisition of Chintang / Sabine Stoll, Balthasar Bickel, Jekaterina Mažara

Western Apache, a southern Athabaskan language / Willem J. de Reuse

Polysynthesis and complexity / Östen Dahl

Polysynthesis in Central Alaskan Yup'ik / Anthony Woodbury

A grammatical sketch of the Innu language (Algonquian) / Lynn Drapeau

Caddo / Wallace Chafe

The northern Hokan area / Carmen Jany

Polysynthesis in Nuuchahnulth, a Wakashan language / Toshihide Nakayama

The polysynthetic nature of Salish / Honoré Watanabe

Nawatl (Uto-Aztecan) / Una Canger

Purepecha, a polysynthetic but predominantly dependent-marking language / Claudine Chamoreau

The marking of core arguments in the polysynthetic verb / Marianne Mithun

Mapudungun / Fernando Zúñiga

Tariana, an Arawak language from north-west Amazonia / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Lakondê, a polysynthetic (Nambikwara) language of southern Amazonia / Leo Wetzels, Stella Telles

Dalabon (Northern Australia) / Nicholas Evans

South Daly River (Northern Australia) / Rachel Nordlinger

The polysynthetic profile of Yimas, a language of New Guinea / William Foley

Koryak / Megumi Kurebito

Nivkh / Johanna Mattissen

Polysynthesis in Ainu / Anna Bugaeva

Ket / Edward J. Vajda

Sub-types of polysynthesis / Johanna Mattissen

Incorporation in Sora (Munda) / Gregory D. S. Anderson

Adyghe (Northwest Caucasian) / Yakov Testelets, Yury A. Lander

The word in polysynthetic languages: phonological and morphological challenges / Balthasar Bickel, Fernando Zúñiga

Phraseology in polysynthetic languages / Sally Rice

The subjectivity of the notion of polysynthesis / Jerrold Sadock

The lexicon in polysynthetic languages / Louis-Jacques Dorais.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780191842382

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