In:Variations on Polysynthesis: The Eskaleut languages
Edited by Marc-Antoine Mahieu and Nicole Tersis
[Typological Studies in Language 86] 2009
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 8 April 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.86.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.86.toc
Table of contents
Preface
Part I. Polysynthesis
Polysynthesis in the Arctic
Polysynthesis as a typological feature: An attempt at a characterization from Eskimo and Athabaskan perspectives
Analytic vs. synthetic verbal constructions in Chukchi and West Greenlandic
Lexical polysynthesis: Should we treat lexical bases and their affixes as a continuum?
How synchronic is synchronic analysis? Siberian Yupik agglutinative morphology and language history
Comparative constructions in Central Alaskan Yupik
Part II. Around the verb
The efficacy of anaphoricity in Aleut
Objective conjugations in Eskaleut and Uralic: Evidence from Inuit and Mansi
Complex verb formation revisited: Restructuring in Inuktitut and Nuu-chah-nulth
Determining the semantics of Inuktitut postbases
The marking of past time in Kalaallisut, the Greenlandic language
Part III. Discourses and contacts
Tracking topics: A comparison of topic in Aleut and Greenlandic discourse
Arguments and information management in Inuktitut
Space and structure in Greenlandic oral tradition
Grammatical structures in Greenlandic as found in texts written by young Greenlanders at the turn of the millennium
Chat – New rooms for language contact
Seward Peninsula Inupiaq and language contact around Bering Strait
Typological constraints on code mixing in Inuktitut–English bilingual adults
Index of languages
Index of subjects
