The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis |
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Editor:
| Fortescue, Michael Mithun, Marianne Evans, Nicholas |
Series title: | Oxford Handbooks Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-968320-8 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2017 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $185.00 |
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.