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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457763603321

Autore

Mattissen Johanna

Titolo

Dependent-head synthesis in Nivkh [[electronic resource] ] : a contribution to a typology of polysynthesis / / Johanna Mattissen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., 2003

ISBN

1-283-31204-2

9786613312044

90-272-7520-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Collana

Typological studies in language, , 0167-7373 ; ; v. 57

Disciplina

494/.6

Soggetti

Gilyak language - Grammar

Typology (Linguistics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as the authors doctoral thesis (Cologne) 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dependent-Head Synthesis in Nivkh; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2. NIVKH PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOPHONEMICS; CHAPTER 3. DEPENDENT-HEAD SYNTHESIS AND WORDHOOD IN NIVKH; CHAPTER 4. THE NIVKH NOUN PLUS VERB COMPLEX; CHAPTER 5. IS THERE NOUN INCORPORATION IN NIVKH?; CHAPTER 6. THE NIVKH VERB PLUS VERB COMPLEX; CHAPTER 7. IS NIVKH A POLYSYNTHETIC LANGUAGE?; CHAPTER 8. THE NIVKH NOMINAL COMPLEX; CHAPTER 9. COMPLEX NOUN FORMS IN THE WORLD'S LANGUAGES; CHAPTER 10. TYPOLOGICAL OUTLOOK; APPENDIX; REFERENCES

BIBLIOGRAPHY ON NIVKHINDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Dependent-Head Synthesis in Nivkh has been awarded a prize of the Offermann-Hergarten Donation at the University of Cologne in 2004. The endowments are granted for outstanding innovative and comprehensibly documented research.This book offers an innovative approach to three interlaced topics: A systematic analysis of the morphosyntatic organization of Nivkh (Paleosiberian); a cross-linguistic investigation of complex noun forms (parallel to complex



(polysynthetic) verb forms); and a typology of polysynthesis. Nivkh (Gilyak) is linguistically remarkable because of its highly complex word