Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Michael Fortescue (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, University of Copenhagen) ,  Marianne Mithun (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara) ,  Nicholas Evans (ARC Laureat Fellow and Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, ARC Laureat Fellow and Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, Australian National University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 5.80cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.786kg
ISBN:  

9780199683208

ISBN 10:   0199683204
Pages:   1090
Publication Date:   21 September 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

Table of Contents

1: Michael Fortescue, Marianne Mithun, and Nicholas Evans: Introduction Part I: The Nature of Polysynthesis 2: Östen Dahl: Polysynthesis and complexity 3: Marianne Mithun: Argument marking in the polysynthetic verb and its implications 4: Johanna Nichols: Polysynthesis and head-marking 5: Johanna Mattissen: Sub-types of polysynthesis 6: Jerrold Sadock: The subjectivity of the notion of polysynthesis 7: Michael Fortescue: What are the limits of polysynthesis? 8: Louis-Jacques Dorais: The lexicon in polysynthetic languages 9: Balthasar Bickel and Fernando Zuñiga: The word in polysynthetic languages: phonological and morphological challenges 10: Peter Trudgill: The anthropological setting of polysynthesis 11: Sally Rice: Phraseology in polysynthetic languages Part II: Areal Perspectives 12: Michael Fortescue: The Arctic and Sub-Arctic 13: Marianne Mithun: Continental North America 14: Carmen Jany: The northern Hokan area 15: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Polysynthetic structures of Lowland Amazonia 16: Nicholas Evans: Northern Australia 17: William A. Foley: Papua New Guinea Part III: The Diachronic Perspective 18: Edward Vajda: Patterns of innovation and retention in templatic polysynthesis 19: T. Givón: The diachrony of complex verbs in Ute 20: Hein van der Voort and Peter Bakker: Polysynthesis and language contact 21: Ekaterina Gruzdeva and Nikolai Vakhtin: Language obsolescence in polysynthetic languages Part IV: Acquisition 22: Shanley Allen: Polysynthesis in the acquisition of Eskimo languages 23: Bill Forshaw, Lucinda Davidson, Barbara Kelly, Rachel Nordlinger, Gillian Wigglesworth, and Joe Blythe: The acquisition of Murrinh-Patha 24: Sabine Stoll, Balthasar Bickel, and Jekaterina Mazara: The acquisition of Chintang Part V: Grammatical Sketches 25: Willem J. de Reuse: Western Apache, a southern Athabaskan languages 26: Anthony C. Woodbury: Polysynthesis in Central Alaskan Yup'ik 27: Lynn Drapeau: A grammatical sketch of the Innu language (Algonquian) 28: Wallace Chafe: Caddo 29: Toshihide Nakayama: Polysynthesis in Nuuchahnulth, a Wakashan language 30: Honoré Watanabe: The polysynthetic nature of Salish 31: Una Canger: Nawatl (Uto-Aztecan) 32: Claudine Chamoreau: Purepecha, a polysynthetic but predominantly dependent-marking language 33: Fernando Zuñiga: Mapudungun 34: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Tariana, an Arawak language from north-west Amazonia 35: Leo Wetzels and Stella Telles: Lakondê, a polysynthetic (Nambikwara) language of southern Amazonia 36: Nicholas Evans: Dalabon (Northern Australia) 37: Rachel Nordlinger: South Daly River (Northern Australia) 38: William Foley: The polysynthetic profile of Yimas, a language of New Guinea 39: Megumi Kurebito: Koryak 40: Johanna Mattissen: Nivkh 41: Anna Bugaeva: Polysynthesis in Ainu 42: Edward Vajda: Ket 43: Gregory D. S. Anderson: Incorporation in Sora (Munda) 44: Yakov G. Testelets and Yury Lander: Adyghe (Northwest Caucasian)

Reviews

Author Information

Michael Fortescue is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, now associated with St Hugh's College, Oxford. His special area of interest is Arctic and Sub-Arctic languages, principally Eskimo-Aleut, but also Chukotko-Kamchatkan and Wakashan languages. He has also published extensively in the more general fields of comparative, typological, cognitive, and functional linguistics. Marianne Mithun is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Much of her work has been in the areas of morphology, syntax, discourse, prosody, and their interrelations; language contact and language change; typology and universals; and language documentation. She has worked with numerous typologically diverse languages including Mohawk, Central Alaskan Yup'ik, Navajo, and Selayarese. Nicholas Evans is ARC Laureate Fellow and Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the Australian National University, and Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. He has carried out wide-ranging fieldwork on traditional languages of northern Australia and southern Papua New Guinea, including Bininj Gun-wok, Dalabon, and Kayardild. He has also worked as a linguist, interpreter, and anthropologist in Native Title claims.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions