ISBN:
9789027206671
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 312 S.
,
Kt.
Series Statement:
Typological studies in language 86
Series Statement:
Typological studies in language
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Variations on polysynthesis
DDC:
497/.1
Keywords:
Eskimo languages Congresses Polysynthesis
;
Grammar, Comparative and general Congresses Polysynthesis
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Eskimo-aleutische Sprachen
;
Grammatik
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Preface ; 1. Polysynthesis in the Arctic
,
2. Polysynthesis as a typological feature: An attempt at a characterization from Eskimo and Athabaskan perspectives
,
3. Analytic vs. synthetic verbal constructions in Chukchi and West Greenlandic
,
4. Lexical polysynthesis: Should we treat lexical bases and their affixes as a continuum?
,
5. How synchronic is synchronic analysis? Siberian Yupik agglutinative morphology and language history
,
6. Comparative constructions in Central Alaskan Yupik
,
7. The efficacy of anaphoricity in Aleut
,
8. Objective conjugations in Eskaleut and Uralic: Evidence from Inuit and Mansi
,
9. Complex verb formation revisited: Restructuring in Inuktitut and Nuu-chah-nulth
,
10. Determining the semantics of Inuktitut postbases
,
11. The marking of past time in Kalaallisut, the Greenlandic language
,
12. Tracking topics: A comparison of topic in Aleut and Greenlandic discourse
,
13. Arguments and information management in Inuktitut
,
14. Space and structure in Greenlandic oral tradition
,
15. Grammatical structures in Greenlandic as found in texts written by young Greenlanders at the turn of the millennium
,
16. Chat : New rooms for language contact
,
17. Seward Peninsula Inupiaq and language contact around Bering Strait
,
18. Typological constraints on code mixing in Inuktitut-English bilingual adults
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