Word in polysynthesis
Course authors
Associate Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science
Associate Professor, School of Linguistics, HSE
Lecturer, School of Linguistics
Course materials
Word in polysynthesis - materials.rar
Chukchi_Kasyanova,Vinyar,Volkov.pdf
Course annotation
During this course, we will look at various phenomena typical for polysynthetic languages (incorporation, productive noninflectional concatenation, lexicalization of morpheme sequences, etc.), which may present a challenge for such contrasts as ‘word forms vs lexemes’, ‘inflection vs derivation’, etc. The course is primarily, yet not exclusively based on the data from Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Northwest Caucasian and Ainu languages