The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis
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Fortescue, Michael; Mithun, Marianne; Evans, Nicholas
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This handbook offers an extensive cross-linguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. These languages and the problems they raise for linguistic analyses have long featured prominently in language descriptions, and yet the essence of polysynthesis remains under discussion, right down to whether it delineates a distinct, coherent type, rather than an assortment of frequently...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2017 |
Type: | Book |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/217698 |
DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199683208.001.0001 |
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