Problems of Polysynthesis /

Problems of Polysynthesis / / hrsg. von Nicholas Evans, Hans-Jürgen Sasse.

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 Ne...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014
MitwirkendeR:
Baker, Brett J.,
Boeder, Winfried,
Drossard, Werner,
Evans, Nicholas,
Fortescue, Michael,
Jung, Dagmar,
Launey, Michel,
Mattissen, Johanna,
Nordlinger, Rachel,
Sasse, Hans-Jürgen,
Wick, Adam Saul,
HerausgeberIn:
Evans, Nicholas,
Sasse, Hans-Jürgen,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin : : Akademie Verlag, , [2014]
©2002
Year of Publication:2014
Language:German
Series:Studia Typologica [STTYP] : Beihefte / Supplements STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals , 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: problems of polysynthesis
  • The true status of grammatical object affixes: evidence from Bininj Gun-wok
  • How referential is agreement? The interpretation of polysynthetic dis-agreement morphology in Ngalakgan
  • Syntax and morphology of polysynthesis in the Georgian verb
  • Compound nouns vs. incorporation in Classical Nahuatl
  • Dependent-head synthesis in Nivkh - with an outlook on polysynthesis in the
  • Clause combining in Apache
  • Infinitives in Polysynthesis: the case of Rembarrnga
  • Lexicological and lexicographic problems of word families in Cayuga
  • Ket as a polysynthetic language, with special reference to complex verbs
  • The rise and fall of polysynthesis in the Eskimo-Aleut family
  • Contributors

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