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"Variations on polysynthesis" was published by John Benjamins Pub. Company in 2008 - Philadelphia, it has 312 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: Variations on polysynthesis
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 312
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  • Publish Location: Philadelphia

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"Variations on polysynthesis" Table Of Contents:

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

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