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" The Oxford handbook of polysynthesis / "
edited by Michael Fortescue, Marianne Mithun and Nicholas Evans.
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BL
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874168
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The Oxford handbook of polysynthesis /\ edited by Michael Fortescue, Marianne Mithun and Nicholas Evans.
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First edition.
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Oxford, United Kingdom :: Oxford University Press, 2017.
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, ©2017
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Oxford handbooks in linguistics
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xvi, 1070 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 26 cm.
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0199683204
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: 9780199683208
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 971-1033) and index.
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| Abstract
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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 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.
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Polysynthesis.
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Dalabon / Dangbon language (N60) (NT SD53-02)
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Dalabon / Dangbon people (N60) (NT SD53-02)
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Polysynthesis.
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Murrinhpatha / Murrinh-patha language (N3) (NT SD52-11)
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Murrinhpatha people (N3) (NT SD52-11)
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Polysynthese
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Arnhem Land (NT)
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415
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P299.P65O94 2017
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Evans, Nicholas,1956-
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Fortescue, Michael D.
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Mithun, Marianne
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Polysynthesis
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