Marc-Antoine Mahieu

List of John Benjamins publications in which Marc-Antoine Mahieu is involved.

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Variations on Polysynthesis: The Eskaleut languages

Edited by Marc-Antoine Mahieu and Nicole Tersis

This work is comprised of a set of papers focussing on the extreme polysynthetic nature of the Eskaleut languages which are spoken over the vast area stretching from Far Eastern Siberia, on through the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and Canada, as far as Greenland. The aim of the book is to situate the… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 86] 2009. ix, 312 pp.

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Henitiuk, Valerie and Marc-Antoine Mahieu 2021 Indigenous peoples and translationHandbook of Translation Studies: Volume 5, Gambier, Yves and Luc van Doorslaer (eds.), pp. 105–111 | Chapter
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Mahieu, Marc-Antoine 2013 The genitive case and the possessive construction in FinnishThe Genitive, Carlier, Anne and Jean-Christophe Verstraete (eds.), pp. 19–54 | Article
In Finnish, the genitive case (marked by -n) has a distribution which is both broad and complex, making it one of the primary components of the grammar. Though sometimes assumed to mark the possessor, it is not found in the possessive construction which appears to be an existential sentence… read more
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Mahieu, Marc-Antoine 2009 Objective conjugations in Eskaleut and Uralic: Evidence from Inuit and MansiVariations on Polysynthesis: The Eskaleut languages, Mahieu, Marc-Antoine and Nicole Tersis (eds.), pp. 115–134 | Chapter
Languages in several eastern branches of the Uralic family have “objective” verbal paradigms, so called because they encode information on both the subject and the direct object. This feature has traditionally been compared, particularly from the genetic standpoint, with the Eskaleut transitive… read more
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