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- Polysynthetic_language abstract "In linguistic typology, polysynthetic languages are highly synthetic languages, i.e. languages in which words are composed of many morphemes (word parts that have independent meaning but may or may not be able to stand alone). Polysynthetic languages typically have long "sentence-words" such as the Yupik word tuntussuqatarniksaitengqiggtuq which means "He had not yet said again that he was going to hunt reindeer." The word consists of the morphemes tuntu-ssur-qatar-ni-ksaite-ngqiggte-uq with the meanings, reindeer-hunt-future-say-negation-again-third.person.singular.indicative, and except for the morpheme tuntu "reindeer", none of the other morphemes can appear in isolation.Whereas isolating languages have a low morpheme-to-word ratio, polysynthetic languages have a very high ratio. There is no generally agreed upon definition of polysynthesis. Some authors apply it to languages with high morpheme-to-word ratios, whilst others use it for languages that are highly head-marking, or those that frequently use noun incorporation. At the same time, the question of whether to call a particular language polysynthetic is complicated by the fact that morpheme and word boundaries are not always clear cut, and languages may be highly synthetic in one area but less synthetic in other areas (e.g., verbs and nouns in Southern Athabaskan languages or Inuit languages).The term was invented by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, who considered polysynthesis — as characterized by sentence words and noun incorporation — a defining feature of all Native American languages. This characterization was shown to be wrong, since many indigenous American languages are not polysynthetic, but it is a fact that polysynthetic languages are not evenly distributed throughout the world, but more frequent in the Americas, Australia, Siberia, and Papua New Guinea—though there are also examples in other areas. The concept became part of linguistic typology with the work of Edward Sapir, who used it as one of his basic typological categories. Recently Mark C. Baker has suggested formally defining polysynthesis as a macro-parameter within Chomsky's principles and parameters theory of grammar. Other linguists question the basic utility of the concept for typology, since it covers many separate morphological types that have little else in common.".
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- Polysynthetic_language hasPhotoCollection Polysynthetic_language.
- Polysynthetic_language subject Category:Grammar.
- Polysynthetic_language subject Category:Linguistic_typology.
- Polysynthetic_language subject Category:Linguistics.
- Polysynthetic_language type Abstraction100002137.
- Polysynthetic_language type AgglutinativeLanguages.
- Polysynthetic_language type Communication100033020.
- Polysynthetic_language type Language106282651.
- Polysynthetic_language comment "In linguistic typology, polysynthetic languages are highly synthetic languages, i.e. languages in which words are composed of many morphemes (word parts that have independent meaning but may or may not be able to stand alone).".
- Polysynthetic_language label "Języki polisyntetyczne".
- Polysynthetic_language label "Langue polysynthétique".
- Polysynthetic_language label "Lengua polisintética".
- Polysynthetic_language label "Lingua polisintetica".
- Polysynthetic_language label "Língua polissintética".
- Polysynthetic_language label "Polysynthetic language".
- Polysynthetic_language label "Polysynthetische taal".
- Polysynthetic_language label "Polysynthetischer Sprachbau".
- Polysynthetic_language label "Полисинтетический язык".
- Polysynthetic_language label "多式综合语".
- Polysynthetic_language label "抱合語".
- Polysynthetic_language sameAs Polysyntetický_jazyk.
- Polysynthetic_language sameAs Polysynthetischer_Sprachbau.
- Polysynthetic_language sameAs Lengua_polisintética.
- Polysynthetic_language sameAs Langue_polysynthétique.
- Polysynthetic_language sameAs Bahasa_polisintetis.
- Polysynthetic_language sameAs Lingua_polisintetica.
- Polysynthetic_language sameAs 抱合語.
- Polysynthetic_language sameAs Polysynthetische_taal.
- Polysynthetic_language sameAs Języki_polisyntetyczne.
- Polysynthetic_language sameAs Língua_polissintética.
- Polysynthetic_language sameAs m.0152vk.
- Polysynthetic_language sameAs Q48641.
- Polysynthetic_language sameAs Q48641.
- Polysynthetic_language sameAs Polysynthetic_language.
- Polysynthetic_language wasDerivedFrom Polysynthetic_language?oldid=599937528.
- Polysynthetic_language isPrimaryTopicOf Polysynthetic_language.