The Oxford handbook of polysynthesis / edited by Michael Fortescue, Marianne Mithun and Nicholas Evans.
| Other author | Fortescue, Michael D. |
| Other author | Mithun, Marianne. |
| Other author | Evans, Nicholas, 1956- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press 2017. |
| Description | xvi, 1070 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Handbooks Online Linguistics |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Handbooks Online 2017 Linguistics |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Polysynthesis |
| Series | Oxford handbooks in linguistics Oxford handbooks in linguistics. ^A886527 |
| Contents | 1. Introduction / Nicholas Evans -- pt. I NATURE OF POLYSYNTHESIS -- 2. Polysynthesis and complexity / Osten Dahl -- 3. Argument marking in the polysynthetic verb and its implications / Marianne Mithun -- 4. Polysynthesis and head marking / Johanna Nichols -- 5. Sub-types of polysynthesis / Johanna Mattissen -- 6. subjectivity of the notion of polysynthesis / Jerrold Sadock -- 7. What are the limits of polysynthesis? / Michael Fortescue -- 8. lexicon in polysynthetic languages / Louis-Jacques Dorais -- 9. `word' in polysynthetic languages: phonological and syntactic challenges / Fernando Zuniga -- 10. anthropological setting of polysynthesis / Peter Trudgill -- 11. Phraseology and polysynthesis / Sally Rice -- pt. II AREAL PERSPECTIVES -- 12. Polysynthesis in the Arctic/Sub-Arctic / Michael Fortescue -- 13. Polysynthesis in North America / Marianne Mithun -- 14. Northern Hokan area / Carmen Jany -- 15. Polysynthetic structures of Lowland Amazonia / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- 16. Polysynthesis in Northern Australia / Nicholas Evans -- 17. Polysynthesis in New Guinea / William A. Foley -- pt. III DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVE -- 18. Patterns of innovation and retention in templatic polysynthesis / Edward Vaida -- 19. Is polysynthesis a valid theoretical notion?: The diachrony of complex verbs in Ute / T. Givon -- 20. Polysynthesis and language contact / Hein van der Voort -- 21. Language obsolescence in polysynthetic languages / Nikolai Vakhtin -- pt. IV ACQUISITION -- 22. Polysynthesis in the acquisition of Inuit languages / Shanley E. M. Allen -- 23. acquisition of Murrinhpatha (Northern Australia) / Joe Blythe -- 24. Acquisition of Polysynthetic Verb Forms in Chintang / Balthasar Bickel -- pt. V GRAMMATICAL SKETCHES -- 25. Western Apache, a southern Athabaskan language / Willem J. de Reuse -- 26. Central Alaskan Yupik (Eskimo-Aleut): A sketch of morphologically orthodox polysynthesis / Anthony C. Woodbury -- 27. Innu (Algonquian) / Lynn Drapeau -- 28. Caddo / Wallace Chafe -- 29. Polysynthesis in Nuuchahnulth, a Wakashan language / Toshihide Nakayama -- 30. polysynthetic nature of Salish / Honore Watanabe -- 31. Nawatl (Uto-Aztecan) / Una Canger -- 32. Purepecha, a polysynthetic but predominantly dependent-marking language / Claudine Chamoreau -- 33. Mapudungun / Fernando Zuniga -- 34. Tariana, an Arawak language from north-west Amazonia / Alexandra y. Aikhenvald -- 35. Polysynthesis in Lakonde, a northern Nambikwaran language of Brazil / W. Leo Wetzels -- 36. Polysynthesis in Dalabon / Nicholas Evans -- 37. The languages of the Daly River region (Northern Australia) / Rachel Nordlinger -- 38. polysynthetic profile of Yimas, a language of New Guinea / William A. Foley -- 39. Koryak / Megumi Kurebito -- 40. Nivkh / Johanna Mattissen -- 41. Polysynthesis in Ainu / Anna Bugaeva -- 42. Polysynthesis in Ket / Edward Vaida -- 43. Polysynthesis in Sora (Munda) with special reference to noun incorporation / Gregory D. S. Anderson -- 44. Adyghe (Northwest Caucasian) / Yakov G. Testelets. |
| Summary | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 971-1033) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017933984 |
| ISBN | 9780199683208 |
| ISBN | 0199683204 |
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