基本説明
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.
Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Preface; 2. Part I. Polysynthesis; 3. Polysynthesis in the Arctic (by Mithun, Marianne); 4. Polysynthesis as a typological feature: An attempt at a characterization from Eskimo and Athabaskan perspectives (by Reuse, Willem J. de); 5. Analytic vs. synthetic verbal constructions in Chukchi and West Greenlandic (by Fortescue, Michael); 6. Lexical polysynthesis: Should we treat lexical bases and their affixes as a continuum? (by Tersis, Nicole); 7. How synchronic is synchronic analysis?: Siberian Yupik agglutinative morphology and language history (by Vakhtin, Nikolai); 8. Comparative constructions in Central Alaskan Yupik (by Miyaoka, Osahito); 9. Part II. Around the verb; 10. The efficacy of anaphoricity in Aleut (by Sadock, Jerrold M.); 11. Objective conjugations in Eskaleut and Uralic: Evidence from Inuit and Mansi (by Mahieu, Marc-Antoine); 12. Complex verb formation revisited: Restructuring in Inuktitut and Nuu-chah-nulth (by Pittman, Christine M.); 13. Determining the semantics of Inuktitut postbases (by Cook, Conor); 14. The marking of past time in Kalaallisut, the Greenlandic language (by Trondhjem, Naja Frederikke); 15. Part III. Discourses and contacts; 16. Tracking topics: A comparison of topic in Aleut and Greenlandic discourse (by Berge, Anna); 17. Arguments and information management in Inuktitut (by Nowak, Elke); 18. Space and structure in Greenlandic oral tradition (by Grove, Arnaq); 19. Grammatical structures in Greenlandic as found in texts written by young Greenlanders at the turn of the millennium (by Langgard, Karen); 20. Chat - New rooms for language contact (by Jacobsen, Birgitte); 21. Seward Peninsula Inupiaq and language contact around Bering Strait (by Kaplan, Lawrence D.); 22. Typological constraints on code mixing in Inuktitut-English bilingual adults (by Allen, Shanley E.M.); 23. Index of languages; 24. Index of subjects
