The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis

Autor

Michael Fortescue

Editura

Oxford University Press

An publicare

2017

Nr. Pagini

1088

ISBN

9780199683208

Categorii

Lingvistica Stiinte Limba Contemporana Gramatica Sintaxa

Descriere

This book offers a crosslinguistic survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. It looks at a range of issues from a cross-theoretical perspective, including complexity, argument structure, language contact, and language obsolence.