Variations on Polysynthesis

• Main Authors: Tersis, Nicole, Mahieu, Marc-Antoine
• Other Authors: Structure et Dynamique des Langues (SeDyL), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco)-Institut de recherche pour le développement IRD : UR135-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Langues et civilisations à tradition orale (LACITO), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3-Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2009
• Subjects: Inuit; Yupik; Aleut; Athabascan; Chukotko-kamchatkan; Iroquoian; Uralic; Wakashan; Polysynthesis; Discourse; contacts; [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics; aleut; Greenland; inuit; Inuit–Yupik; Alaska; Aleutian Islands; Siberia
• Online Access: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00724029

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 this book is firstly 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 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.