Variations on Polysynthesis

The Eskaleut languages

Editors

Marc-Antoine Mahieu | University Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle

Nicole Tersis | CNRS-CELIA

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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 context – including language contact and learning situations – and over typologically related language families such as Athabascan, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Iroquoian, Uralic, and Wakashan.

[Typological Studies in Language, 86] 2009. ix, 312 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.86

Table of Contents

Preface | pp. vi–vii

Part I. Polysynthesis

Polysynthesis in the Arctic

Marianne Mithun | pp. 3–17

Polysynthesis as a typological feature: An attempt at a characterization from Eskimo and Athabaskan perspectives

Willem J. de Reuse | pp. 19–34

Analytic vs. synthetic verbal constructions in Chukchi and West Greenlandic

Michael Fortescue | pp. 35–49

Lexical polysynthesis: Should we treat lexical bases and their affixes as a continuum?

Nicole Tersis | pp. 51–64

How synchronic is synchronic analysis? Siberian Yupik agglutinative morphology and language history

Nikolai Vakhtin | pp. 65–80

Comparative constructions in Central Alaskan Yupik

Osahito Miyaoka | pp. 81–94

Part II. Around the verb

The efficacy of anaphoricity in Aleut

Jerrold M. Sadock | pp. 97–114

Objective conjugations in Eskaleut and Uralic: Evidence from Inuit and Mansi

Marc-Antoine Mahieu | pp. 115–134

Complex verb formation revisited: Restructuring in Inuktitut and Nuu-chah-nulth

Christine M. Pittman | pp. 135–147

Determining the semantics of Inuktitut postbases

Conor Cook and Alana Johns | pp. 149–170

The marking of past time in Kalaallisut, the Greenlandic language

Naja Frederikke Trondhjem | pp. 171–182

Part III. Discourses and contacts

Tracking topics: A comparison of topic in Aleut and Greenlandic discourse

Anna Berge | pp. 185–200

Arguments and information management in Inuktitut

Elke Nowak | pp. 201–214

Space and structure in Greenlandic oral tradition

Arnaq Grove | pp. 215–230

Grammatical structures in Greenlandic as found in texts written by young Greenlanders at the turn of the millennium

Karen Langgård | pp. 231–247

Chat – New rooms for language contact

Birgitte Jacobsen | pp. 249–260

Seward Peninsula Inupiaq and language contact around Bering Strait

Lawrence D. Kaplan | pp. 261–272

Typological constraints on code mixing in Inuktitut–English bilingual adults

Shanley E.M. Allen, Fred Genesee, Sarah Fish and Martha Crago | pp. 273–306

Index of languages | pp. 307–308

Index of subjects | pp. 309–312

“Variations on Polysynthesis is a great thought-provoking book.”

André Bourcier, Yukon Native Language Center, in Études/Inuit/Studies

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