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Grammar, Comparative and general Polysynthesis (Topical Term)

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Preferred form: Grammar, Comparative and general Polysynthesis

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Polysynthesis

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Broader heading: Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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Work cat.: 2008050995: Variations on polysynthesis, 2008.

Oxford English dictionary, via www, 24 Nov 2008 (article: Polysynthesis: The incorporation of several or all syntactic elements in a sentence into one word; this as a characteristic feature of certain languages.)

Wikipedia, via www, 24 Nov 2008 (Polysynthetic languages are highly synthetic languages, i.e. languages in which words are composed of many morphemes. Languages with more than one morpheme per word are synthetic. Polysynthetic languages lie at the extreme end of the synthesis continuum with a very high number of morphemes per word (at the other extreme are isolating or analytic languages with only one morpheme per word). These highly synthetic languages often have very long words that correspond to complete sentences in less synthetic languages)