Problems of Polysynthesis by Nicholas Evans
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.-
Proper Names versus Common Nouns
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Number Categories
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The Next Century of Maltese Linguistics
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The Grammar of Maltese Prepositions
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Special Onymic Grammar in Typological Perspective
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Convergence and Divergence in the Eastern Circum-Baltic Area
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Aspects of Typology and Universals
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The The Origin of Agent Markers
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Evidential Marking in European Languages
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"Was ich noch sagen wollte..."
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Focus on Germanic Typology
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Maltese
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Word Order Variation
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Grammaticalization and Variation
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Reduplication at the Word Level
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Non-Prototypical Reduplication
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Competing Comparative Constructions in Europe
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The Crosslinguistics of Zero-Marking of Spatial Relations
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Perspectives on Maltese Linguistics
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Areal Linguistics within the Phonological Atlas of Europe
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Spatial Interrogatives in Europe and Beyond
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Here Hither Hence and Related Categories
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Grammatical Gender in Maltese
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Advances in Maltese Linguistics
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Maltese Linguistics on the Danube
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Types of Reduplication
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Shifts and Patterns in Maltese
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The Expression of Predicative Possession
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Irregularity in Morphology (and beyond)
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Total Reduplication
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Variation and Change
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Typological Studies in Participation
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Monosyllables
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Morphologies in Contact
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Predicate Compounding in the Yi-Group
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| ISBN 13 | 9783050037325 |
| ISBN 10 | 3050037326 |
| Title | Problems of Polysynthesis |
| Author | Nicholas Evans |
| Series | Studia Typologica [Sttyp] |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Year published | 2002-02-27 |
| Number of pages | 285 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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