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Variations on Polysynthesis: The Eskaleut Languages
2009, Benjamins Publishing Company, John
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2008, John Benjamins Pub. Company
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Table of Contents

Preface
1. Polysynthesis in the Arctic / Marianne Mithun
2. Polysynthesis as a typological feature: An attempt at a characterization from Eskimo and Athabaskan perspectives / Willem J. de Reuse
3. Analytic vs. synthetic verbal constructions in Chukchi and West Greenlandic / Michael Fortescue
4. Lexical polysynthesis: Should we treat lexical bases and their affixes as a continuum? / Nicole Tersis
5. How synchronic is synchronic analysis? Siberian Yupik agglutinative morphology and language history / Nikolai Vakhtin
6. Comparative constructions in Central Alaskan Yupik / Osahito Miyaoka
7. The efficacy of anaphoricity in Aleut / Jerrold M. Sadock
8. Objective conjugations in Eskaleut and Uralic: Evidence from Inuit and Mansi / Marc-Antoine Mahieu
9. Complex verb formation revisited: Restructuring in Inuktitut and Nuu-chah-nulth / Christine M. Pittman
10. Determining the semantics of Inuktitut postbases / Conor Cook and Alana Johns
11. The marking of past time in Kalaallisut, the Greenlandic language / Naja Frederikke Trondjem
12. Tracking topics: A comparison of topic in Aleut and Greenlandic discourse / Anna Berge
13. Arguments and information management in Inuktitut / Elke Nowak
14. Space and structure in Greenlandic oral tradition / Arnaq Grove
15. Grammatical structures in Greenlandic as found in texts written by young Greenlanders at the turn of the millennium / Karen Langgård
16. Chat : New rooms for language contact / Birgitte Jacobsen
17. Seward Peninsula Inupiaq and language contact around Bering Strait / Lawrence D. Kaplan
18. Typological constraints on code mixing in Inuktitut-English bilingual adults / Shanley Allen, Fred Genesee, Sarah Fish and Martha Crago.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Philadelphia
Series
Typological studies in language -- 86

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Dewey Decimal Class
497/.1
Library of Congress
PM50 .V37 2008, PM50 .V37 2009, PM50.V37 2008

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
312

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22691520M
Internet Archive
variationsonpoly00mahi
ISBN 13
9789027206671
LCCN
2008050995
OCLC/WorldCat
276771411

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