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Problems of Polysynthesis

By Nicholas Evans , Hans-Jürgen Sasse (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Akademie Verlag
Year
2002
ISBN
3050037326, 9783050037325
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13462738 bytes)
Series
Studia Typologica 4
Edition
1
Pages
280\286
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2017-04-25 23:56:32
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Description

The papers deal with a range of questions raised for linguistic theory and description by polysynthetic languages. Prototypical polysynthetic lamguages, found among unrelated language families in such varied parts of the world as North America, Meso-America, Siberia, northern Australia, and Papua New Guinea, display remarkably similar suites of grammatical characteristics. But, nearly two centuries after Humboldt and Kleinschmidt began to make the existence and interest of polysythetic languages widely known among linguistics, languages of this type continue to pose a challange to every major linguistic theory.

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