Variations on polysynthesis : the Eskaleut languages
Title:
Variations on polysynthesis : the Eskaleut languages
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Marc-Antoine Mahieu, Nicole Tersis.
Publication Information:
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2000 [i.e. c2009]
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 312 pages) : maps.
ISBN:
9789027289377
General Note:
"Proceedings of the Linguistics Session of the 15th International Congress of Inuit Studies which was held in Paris in October 2006 at the Quai Branly Museum"--Preface.
Abstract:
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 Eskaleut languages typologically in general linguistic terms, particularly with regard to polysynthesis. The degree of variation from more to less polysynthesis is evaluated within Eskaleut (Inuit-Yupik vs. Aleut), even in previously insufficiently explored domains such as pragmatics and use in conte.
Local Note:
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Genre:
Contents:
Preface -- Polysynthesis in the Arctic / Marianne Mithun -- Polysynthesis as a typological feature : an attempt at a characterization from Eskimo and Athabaskan perspectives / Willem J. de Reuse -- Analytic vs. synthetic verbal constructions in Chukchi and West Greenlandic / Michael Fortescue -- Lexical polysynthesis : should we treat lexical bases and their affixes as a continuum? / Nicole Tersis -- How synchronic is synchronic analysis? Siberian Yupik agglutinative morphology and language history / Nikolai Vakhtin -- Comparative constructions in Central Alaskan Yupik / Osahito Miyaoka -- The efficacy of anaphoricity in Aleut / Jerrold M. Sadock -- Objective conjugations in Eskaleut and Uralic : evidence from Inuit and Mansi / Marc-Antoine Mahieu -- Complex verb formation revisited : restructuring in Inuktitut and Nuu-chah-nulth / Christine M. Pittman -- Determining the semantics of Inuktitut postbases / Conor Cook & Alana Johns -- The marking of past time in Kalaallisut, the Greenlandic language / Naja Frederikke Trondjem -- Tracking topics : a comparison of topic in Aleut and Greenlandic discourse / Anna Berge -- Arguments and information management in Inuktitut / Elke Nowak -- Space and structure in Greenlandic oral tradition / Arnaq Grove -- Grammatical structures in Greenlandic as found in texts written by young Greenlanders at the turn of the millennium / Karen Langgård -- Chat : new rooms for language contact / Birgitte Jacobsen -- Seward Peninsula Inupiaq and language contact around Bering Strait / Lawrence D. Kaplan -- Typological constraints on code mixing in Inuktitut-English bilingual adults / Shanley Allen [and others].
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.