New Book Available
Variations on Polysynthesis: the Eskaleut languages
Edited By: M.A. Mahieu and N. Tersis
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Patricia Leplae
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John Benjamins Publishing Company announces a new publication:
Variations on Polysynthesis: the Eskaleut languages. This publication is
the proceedings of the Linguistics Session of the 15th International
Congress of Inuit Studies, which was held in Paris in October 2006.
The work is comprised of a set of papers focusing on the extreme
polysynthetic nature of the Eskaleut languages that are spoken over the
vast area stretching from Far Eastern Siberia, 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.
For further information, please go to:
http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TSL%2086
Or contact:
Patricia Leplae
Email: patricia.leplae [at] benjamins.nl