Questions tagged [polysynthesis]
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How a learner of a polysynthetic language like Arapaho would use an electronic or printed dictionary?
Along the lines of this question about agglutinative dictionaries, I just finished reading through the paper "Creating lexical resources for polysynthetic languages — the case of Arapaho, by ...
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How to distinguish a polysynthetic language from other languages? When is something a word?
For example, the probably most quoted sentence in a polysynthetic langauge (from Yupik):
tuntussuqatarniksaitengqiggtuq:
tuntu- ssur- qatar- ni- ksaite- ngqiggte- uq
reindeer- hunt- FUT- ...
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How frequent are different morphosyntactic types?
I started wondering what share of all world's languages are polysynthetic (on any practical definition of polysynthetic, i.e. the prototype approach, the macroparameter theory (Baker 1995), etc.), and ...
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How do formal theories analyse the syntax of polysynthetic languages?
How is syntax of polysynthetic languages (e.g. Inuktitut, Mohawk) represented in formal theories of syntax? In many cases, a sentence consists of only one or two words so the syntax tree is rather ...
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What is the distinction between agglutinative languages and polysynthetic ones?
My understanding of morphology is that a word is taken and many different words are glued to it.
Is not this true for both agglutinative and polysynthetic languages? Or what is the finer level of ...
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