Variations on polysynthesis
Subtitle: the Eskaleut languages
By: edited by Marc-Antoine Mahieu, Nicole Tersis.
Contributors: Mahieu, Marc-Antoine.; Tersis, Nicole.
Series: Typological studies in language -- 86
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9789027206671
Subjects: Eskimo languages -- Polysynthesis; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Polysynthesis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: 1. Polysynthesis in the Arctic / Marianne Mithun; title: 2. Polysynthesis as a typological feature: An attempt at a characterization from Eskimo and Athabaskan perspectives / Willem J. de Reuse; title: 3. Analytic vs. synthetic verbal constructions in Chukchi and West Greenlandic / Michael Fortescue; title: 4. Lexical polysynthesis: Should we treat lexical bases and their affixes as a continuum? / Nicole Tersis; title: 5. How synchronic is synchronic analysis? Siberian Yupik agglutinative morphology and language history / Nikolai Vakhtin; title: 6. Comparative constructions in Central Alaskan Yupik / Osahito Miyaoka; title: 7. The efficacy of anaphoricity in Aleut / Jerrold M. Sadock; title: 8. Objective conjugations in Eskaleut and Uralic: Evidence from Inuit and Mansi / Marc-Antoine Mahieu; title: 9. Complex verb formation revisited: Restructuring in Inuktitut and Nuu-chah-nulth / Christine M. Pittman; title: 10. Determining the semantics of Inuktitut postbases / Conor Cook and Alana Johns; title: 11. The marking of past time in Kalaallisut, the Greenlandic language / Naja Frederikke Trondjem; title: 12. Tracking topics: A comparison of topic in Aleut and Greenlandic discourse / Anna Berge; title: 13. Arguments and information management in Inuktitut / Elke Nowak; title: 14. Space and structure in Greenlandic oral tradition / Arnaq Grove; title: 15. Grammatical structures in Greenlandic as found in texts written by young Greenlanders at the turn of the millennium / Karen Langgård; title: 16. Chat : New rooms for language contact / Birgitte Jacobsen; title: 17. Seward Peninsula Inupiaq and language contact around Bering Strait / Lawrence D. Kaplan; title: 18. Typological constraints on code mixing in Inuktitut-English bilingual adults / Shanley Allen, Fred Genesee, Sarah Fish and Martha Crago.