Variations on polysynthesis : the Eskaleut languages / edited by Marc-Antoine Mahieu, Nicole Tersis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mahieu, Marc-Antoine.

Tersis, Nicole.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; 86.

Typological studies in language ; 86

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eskimo languages--Polysynthesis.

Eskimo languages.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Polysynthesis.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

ix, 312 p. : map.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This work is comprised of a set of papers focussing on the extreme polysynthetic nature of the Eskaleut languages which are spoken over the vast area stretching from Far Eastern Siberia, on through the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and Canada, as far as Greenland. The aim of the book is to situate the Eskaleut languages typologically in general linguistic terms, particularly with regard to polysynthesis. The degree of variation from more to less polysynthesis is evaluated within Eskaleut (Inuit-Yupik vs. Aleut), even in previously insufficiently explored domains such as pragmatics and use in context – including language contact and learning situations – and over typologically related language families such as Athabascan, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Iroquoian, Uralic, and Wakashan.

Contents:

Preface

Polysynthesis in the Arctic / Marianne Mithun

Polysynthesis as a typological feature : an attempt at a characterization from Eskimo and Athabaskan perspectives / Willem J. de Reuse

Analytic vs. synthetic verbal constructions in Chukchi and West Greenlandic / Michael Fortescue

Lexical polysynthesis : should we treat lexical bases and their affixes as a continuum? / Nicole Tersis

How synchronic is synchronic analysis? Siberian Yupik agglutinative morphology and language history / Nikolai Vakhtin

Comparative constructions in Central Alaskan Yupik / Osahito Miyaoka

The efficacy of anaphoricity in Aleut / Jerrold M. Sadock

Objective conjugations in Eskaleut and Uralic : evidence from Inuit and Mansi / Marc-Antoine Mahieu

Complex verb formation revisited : restructuring in Inuktitut and Nuu-chah-nulth / Christine M. Pittman

Determining the semantics of Inuktitut postbases / Conor Cook & Alana Johns

The marking of past time in Kalaallisut, the Greenlandic language / Naja Frederikke Trondjem

Tracking topics : a comparison of topic in Aleut and Greenlandic discourse / Anna Berge

Arguments and information management in Inuktitut / Elke Nowak

Space and structure in Greenlandic oral tradition / Arnaq Grove

Grammatical structures in Greenlandic as found in texts written by young Greenlanders at the turn of the millennium / Karen Langgård

Chat : new rooms for language contact / Birgitte Jacobsen

Seward Peninsula Inupiaq and language contact around Bering Strait / Lawrence D. Kaplan

Typological constraints on code mixing in Inuktitut-English bilingual adults / Shanley Allen ... [et al.].

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612104367

9781282104365

1282104365

9789027289377

9027289379