The Oxford handbook of polysynthesis
This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic 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 prominentl...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2017, 2017
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| Series: | Oxford handbooks online / Oxford handbooks online
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| Collection: | Oxford Handbook Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic 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 co-occurring traits |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780191842382 |