Variations on Polysynthesis: The Eskaleut languages
Edited by Marc-Antoine Mahieu and Nicole Tersis
[Typological Studies in Language, 86] 2009. ix, 312 pp.
Marc-Antoine Mahieu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marc-Antoine Mahieu plays a role.
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Subjects Languages of North America | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2021 Indigenous peoples and translation Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 5, Gambier, Yves and Luc van Doorslaer (eds.), pp. 105–111 | Article
2013 The genitive case and the possessive construction in Finnish The Genitive, Carlier, Anne and Jean-Christophe Verstraete (eds.), pp. 19–54 | Article
In Finnish, the genitive case (marked by -n) has a distribution which is both broad and complex, making it one of the primary components of the grammar. Though sometimes assumed to mark the possessor, it is not found in the possessive construction which appears to be an existential sentence… read more
2009 Objective conjugations in Eskaleut and Uralic: Evidence from Inuit and Mansi Variations on Polysynthesis: The Eskaleut languages, Mahieu, Marc-Antoine and Nicole Tersis (eds.), pp. 115–134 | Chapter
Languages in several eastern branches of the Uralic family have “objective” verbal paradigms, so called because they encode information on both the subject and the direct object. This feature has traditionally been compared, particularly from the genetic standpoint, with the Eskaleut transitive… read more