Variations on polysynthesis the Eskaleut languages
Preface -- 1. Polysynthesis in the Arctic / Marianne Mithun -- 2. Polysynthesis as a typological feature: An attempt at a characterization from Eskimo and Athabaskan perspectives / Willem J. de Reuse -- 3. Analytic vs. synthetic verbal constructions in Chukchi and West Greenlandic / Michael Fortescu...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Amsterdam u.a.
Benjamins
2009
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| Schriftenreihe: | Typological studies in language
86 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Preface -- 1. Polysynthesis in the Arctic / Marianne Mithun -- 2. Polysynthesis as a typological feature: An attempt at a characterization from Eskimo and Athabaskan perspectives / Willem J. de Reuse -- 3. Analytic vs. synthetic verbal constructions in Chukchi and West Greenlandic / Michael Fortescue -- 4. Lexical polysynthesis: Should we treat lexical bases and their affixes as a continuum? / Nicole Tersis -- 5. How synchronic is synchronic analysis? Siberian Yupik agglutinative morphology and language history / Nikolai Vakhtin -- 6. Comparative constructions in Central Alaskan Yupik / Osahito Miyaoka -- 7. The efficacy of anaphoricity in Aleut / Jerrold M. Sadock -- 8. Objective conjugations in Eskaleut and Uralic: Evidence from Inuit and Mansi / Marc-Antoine Mahieu -- 9. Complex verb formation revisited: Restructuring in Inuktitut and Nuu-chah-nulth / Christine M. Pittman -- 10. Determining the semantics of Inuktitut postbases / Conor Cook and Alana Johns -- 11. The marking of past time in Kalaallisut, the Greenlandic language / Naja Frederikke Trondjem -- 12. Tracking topics: A comparison of topic in Aleut and Greenlandic discourse / Anna Berge -- 13. Arguments and information management in Inuktitut / Elke Nowak -- 14. Space and structure in Greenlandic oral tradition / Arnaq Grove -- 15. Grammatical structures in Greenlandic as found in texts written by young Greenlanders at the turn of the millennium / Karen Langgård -- 16. Chat : New rooms for language contact / Birgitte Jacobsen -- 17. Seward Peninsula Inupiaq and language contact around Bering Strait / Lawrence D. Kaplan -- 18. Typological constraints on code mixing in Inuktitut-English bilingual adults / Shanley Allen, Fred Genesee, Sarah Fish and Martha Crago |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 312 S. Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9789027206671 978-90-272-0667-1 |