Lexical polysynthesis
International audience Polysynthesis in Inuit appears at both lexical and sentence levels. The analysis of a sampling of 3000 lexical entries and 300 affixes collected in Eastern Greenland (Tunumiisut) shows how polysynthesis works in lexical morphology and how phonetic wastage helps to obscure the...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:halshs-00724037v1 2023-05-15T16:28:49+02:00 Lexical polysynthesis Lexical polysynthesis: Should we treat lexical bases and their affixes as a continuum ? Tersis, Nicole Structure et Dynamique des Langues (SeDyL) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco)-Institut de recherche pour le développement IRD : UR135 M.-A.Mahieu et N.Tersis Paris, France 2006 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00724037 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00724037/document https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00724037/file/polysynthes.pdf en eng HAL CCSD Benjamins halshs-00724037 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00724037 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00724037/document https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00724037/file/polysynthes.pdf info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess Variations on Polysynthesis, The Eskaleut languages https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00724037 Variations on Polysynthesis, The Eskaleut languages, 2006, Paris, France. pp.51-64 inuit lexical polysynthesis incorporating affixes grammaticalization [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject Conference papers 2006 ftccsdartic 2021-10-31T12:00:50Z International audience Polysynthesis in Inuit appears at both lexical and sentence levels. The analysis of a sampling of 3000 lexical entries and 300 affixes collected in Eastern Greenland (Tunumiisut) shows how polysynthesis works in lexical morphology and how phonetic wastage helps to obscure the motivation for some lexical forms and favors the development of homophones. Furthermore, the analysis of the full set of affixes reveals a number of formal and semantic similarities which relate affixes having different functions. This suggests a continuum over incorporating affixes, TAM verb affixes, and verb inflection, attested in a number of items. While the lexical origin of some incorporating affixes has already been suggested, the hypothesis of a larger lexical, derivational, and inflectional continuum may provide clues for discovering grammaticalization processes operating within the stock of affixes. Conference Object Greenland inuit Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Greenland |
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International audience Polysynthesis in Inuit appears at both lexical and sentence levels. The analysis of a sampling of 3000 lexical entries and 300 affixes collected in Eastern Greenland (Tunumiisut) shows how polysynthesis works in lexical morphology and how phonetic wastage helps to obscure the motivation for some lexical forms and favors the development of homophones. Furthermore, the analysis of the full set of affixes reveals a number of formal and semantic similarities which relate affixes having different functions. This suggests a continuum over incorporating affixes, TAM verb affixes, and verb inflection, attested in a number of items. While the lexical origin of some incorporating affixes has already been suggested, the hypothesis of a larger lexical, derivational, and inflectional continuum may provide clues for discovering grammaticalization processes operating within the stock of affixes. |
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Structure et Dynamique des Langues (SeDyL) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco)-Institut de recherche pour le développement IRD : UR135 M.-A.Mahieu et N.Tersis |
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Variations on Polysynthesis, The Eskaleut languages https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00724037 Variations on Polysynthesis, The Eskaleut languages, 2006, Paris, France. pp.51-64 |
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