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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