The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis |
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| Editor:
| Fortescue, Michael
Mithun, Marianne
Evans, Nicholas |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-968320-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2017 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $253.64AUD $318.00 |
Book Description:
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This book offers a crosslinguistic survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. It looks at a range of issues from a cross-theoretical perspective, including complexity, argument structure, language contact, and language obsolence.
This book offers a crosslinguistic survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. It looks at a range of issues from a cross-theoretical perspective, including complexity, argument structure, language contact, and language obsolence.