The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 September 2017
- ISBN 9780199683208
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1090 pages
- Size 246x171 mm
- Weight 1786 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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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. 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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: The Nature of Polysynthesis
Polysynthesis and complexity
Argument marking in the polysynthetic verb and its implications
Polysynthesis and head-marking
Sub-types of polysynthesis
The subjectivity of the notion of polysynthesis
What are the limits of polysynthesis?
The lexicon in polysynthetic languages
The word in polysynthetic languages: phonological and morphological challenges
The anthropological setting of polysynthesis
Phraseology in polysynthetic languages
Part II: Areal Perspectives
The Arctic and Sub-Arctic
Continental North America
The northern Hokan area
Polysynthetic structures of Lowland Amazonia
Northern Australia
Papua New Guinea
Part III: The Diachronic Perspective
Patterns of innovation and retention in templatic polysynthesis
The diachrony of complex verbs in Ute
Polysynthesis and language contact
Language obsolescence in polysynthetic languages
Part IV: Acquisition
Polysynthesis in the acquisition of Eskimo languages
The acquisition of Murrinh-Patha
The acquisition of Chintang
Part V: Grammatical Sketches
Western Apache, a southern Athabaskan languages
Polysynthesis in Central Alaskan Yup'ik
A grammatical sketch of the Innu language (Algonquian)
Caddo
Polysynthesis in Nuuchahnulth, a Wakashan language
The polysynthetic nature of Salish
Nawatl (Uto-Aztecan)
Purepecha, a polysynthetic but predominantly dependent-marking language
Mapudungun
Tariana, an Arawak language from north-west Amazonia
Lakond?, a polysynthetic (Nambikwara) language of southern Amazonia
Dalabon (Northern Australia)
South Daly River (Northern Australia)
The polysynthetic profile of Yimas, a language of New Guinea
Koryak
Nivkh
Polysynthesis in Ainu
Ket
Incorporation in Sora (Munda)
Adyghe (Northwest Caucasian)
