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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:20:25
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis: Fortescue, Mithun, Evans (eds.)

 


Title: The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-polysynthesis-9780199683208 


Editor: Michael Fortescue
Editor: Marianne Mithun
Editor: Nicholas Evans

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199683208 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 175.00


Abstract:

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. 

Chapters in the first part of the handbook relate polysynthesis to other
issues central to linguistics, such as complexity, the definition of the word,
the nature of the lexicon, idiomaticity, and to typological features such as
argument structure and head marking. Part two contains areal studies of those
geographical regions of the world where polysynthesis is particularly common,
such as the Arctic and Sub-Arctic and northern Australia. The third part
examines diachronic topics such as language contact and language obsolence,
while part four looks at acquisition issues in different polysynthetic
languages. Finally, part five contains detailed grammatical descriptions of
over twenty languages which have been characterized as polysynthetic, with
special attention given to the presence or absence of potentially criterial
features.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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