Polysynthetic Morphology

Polysynthetic Morphology is a morphological typology characterized by the construction of complex words through the extensive incorporation of multiple morphemes, including roots, affixes, and grammatical markers, into single phonological words, thereby encoding entire syntactic propositions within a single word form.

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Morphological Comparison

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Morphological and semantic regularities in the lexicon

Ray Jackendoff · Language · 1975 · 878 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Morphology +15

Big words, small phrases: Mismatches between pause units and the polysynthetic word in Dalabon

Nicholas Evans, Janet Fletcher · Linguistics · 2008 · 298 citations · Full text

Language Studies, Linguistics, Language Development +12

The acquisition of polysynthesis

Marianne Mithun · Journal of Child Language · 1989 · 146 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Language Acquisition +16

The Alignment of Prosody and Clausal Structure in Dalabon

Bella Ross, Janet Fletcher, Rachel Nordlinger · Australian Journal of Linguistics · 2016 · 137 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Morphology +14

Who Said Polysynthetic Languages Avoid Subordination? Multiple Subordination Strategies in Dalabon* A version of this paper was presented at the Blackwood workshop on Australian languages, March 2002; I thank the participants in that workshop for their comments and discussion, as well as Rachel Nordlinger and two anonymous<i>AJL</i>reviewers. I also gratefully acknowledge the following people and institutions for supporting the research on Dalabon reported here: my Dalabon teachers †David Kalbuma, †Daisy Bordok, †Jack Chadum, †Don Buninjawa, Peter Marnibirru, Alice Bohm, and Maggie Tukumba; the Australian Research Council and Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation for funding my fieldtrips to Arnhem Land since 1991 (under the auspices of Australian Research Grants ‘Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia’, ‘Polysemy and Semantic Change in Australian Languages’, ‘Intonation and Prosody in Australian Languages’, ‘Reciprocals across Languages’, and the Dalabon dictionary project); Barry Alpher and Francesca Merlan for making available their unpublished fieldnotes and other materials, and Murray Garde and Francesca Merlan for valuable discussions about Dalabon during and after joint field-trips. Much of the data in this paper derives from on-going work with Francesca Merlan, undertaken with the ultimate goal of producing a full description of the language.

Nicholas Evans · Australian Journal of Linguistics · 2006 · 129 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Morphology +16

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Rachel Nordlinger
The University of Melbourne, Australia
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Michael Fortescue
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Marianne Mithun
University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
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Nicholas Evans
Australian National University, Australia
3 publications · 446 citations
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Jeffrey Micher
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, United States
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Studies in Language
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Language
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International Journal of American Linguistics
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Linguistics
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Linguistic Typology
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