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Problems of Polysynthesis / Nicholas Evans, Hans-Jürgen Sasse.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studia typologica ; Volume 4.
- Studia Typologica ; 4
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax--Congresses.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Typology (Linguistics)--Congresses.
- Typology (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Akademie Verlag, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The papers deal with a range of questions raised for linguistic theory and description by polysynthetic languages. Prototypical polysynthetic lamguages, found among unrelated language families in such varied parts of the world as North America, Meso-America, Siberia, northern Australia, and Papua New Guinea, display remarkably similar suites of grammatical characteristics. But, nearly two centuries after Humboldt and Kleinschmidt began to make the existence and interest of polysythetic languages widely known among linguistics, languages of this type continue to pose a challange to every major linguistic theory.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: problems of polysynthesis / Evans, Nicholas / Sasse, Hans-Jürgen
- The true status of grammatical object affixes: evidence from Bininj Gun-wok / Evans, Nicholas
- How referential is agreement? The interpretation of polysynthetic dis-agreement morphology in Ngalakgan / Baker, Brett J.
- Syntax and morphology of polysynthesis in the Georgian verb / Boeder, Winfried
- Compound nouns vs. incorporation in Classical Nahuatl / Launey, Michel
- Dependent-head synthesis in Nivkh - with an outlook on polysynthesis in the / Mattissen, Johanna
- Clause combining in Apache / Jung, Dagmar
- Infinitives in Polysynthesis: the case of Rembarrnga / Nordlinger, Rachel / Wick, Adam Saul
- Lexicological and lexicographic problems of word families in Cayuga / Sasse, Hans-Jürgen
- Ket as a polysynthetic language, with special reference to complex verbs / Drossard, Werner
- The rise and fall of polysynthesis in the Eskimo-Aleut family / Fortescue, Michael
- Contributors
- Notes:
- "The papers assembled in this volume deal with a range of questions raised for linguistic theory and description by polysynthetic languages."
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9783050080956
- 3050080957
- OCLC:
- 922949550
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