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Variations on Polysynthesis
Language: en
Pages: 327
Authors: Marc-Antoine Mahieu
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-08 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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This work is comprised of a set of papers focussing on the extreme polysynthetic nature of the Eskaleut languages which are spoken over the vast area stretching
The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis
Language: en
Pages: 1089
Authors: Michael Fortescue
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-14 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express
Parametric Variation
Language: en
Pages: 375
Authors: Theresa Biberauer
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Parametric variation in linguistic theory refers to the systematic grammatical variation permitted by the human language faculty. This book is a defence of the
To be or not to be a Word
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-02 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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This book discusses the nature and definition of what a word is in Linguistics. This is not an easy task since the term subsumes a wide range of phenomena explo
The Polysynthesis Parameter
Language: en
Pages: 581
Authors: Mark C. Baker
Categories: Grammar, Comparative and general
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This book investigates in detail the grammar of polysynthetic languages--those with very complex verbal morphology. Baker argues that polysynthesis is more than