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.
New Book on Linguistics- Variations on Polysynthesis
Mon, Aug 17, 2009
The proceedings of the Linguistics Session of the 15th International Congress of Inuit Studies, which was held in Paris in October 2006, have been recently published. The publication is 'Variations on Polysynthesis: the Eskaleut languages M.-A. Mahieu & N. Tersis (eds), 2009, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins, Typological Studies in Languages 86, 312 p.