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The last word on polysynthesis: A review article

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From the journal Linguistic Typology

Reviewed Publication:

Michael Fortescue, Marianne Mithun and Nicholas Evans (eds.) 2017. Oxford handbook of polysynthesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1,088 Pages, ISBN: 9780199683208 (Hardback), 125GBP


Acknowledgements

The support of the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grant 670985, Grammatical Universals) is gratefully acknowledged.

Gloss abbreviations (other than those listed in the Leipzig Glossing Rules)

aor

aorist

ass

assertive

hab

habitual

real

realis

rm

remote

seq

sequential

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Received: 2018-03-07
Revised: 2018-05-17
Published Online: 2018-08-16
Published in Print: 2018-08-28

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