The Oxford handbook of polysynthesis / edited by Michael Fortescue, Marianne Mithun and Nicholas Evans.

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 prominentl...

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Other Authors: Fortescue, Michael D. (Editor), Mithun, Marianne (Editor), Evans, Nicholas, 1956- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Series:Oxford handbooks online.
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