Buch, Englisch, Band 86, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 725 g
The Eskaleut languages
Buch, Englisch, Band 86, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 725 g
Reihe: Typological Studies in Language
ISBN: 978-90-272-0667-1
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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.
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Preface
Part I. Polysynthesis
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
Part II. Around the verb
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 and Alana Johns
The marking of past time in Kalaallisut, the Greenlandic language
Naja Frederikke Trondhjem
Part III. Discourses and contacts
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, Fred Genesee, Sarah Fish and Martha Crago
Index of languages
Index of subjects
