polysynthetic in a sentence
Examples
- Traditional Tiwi, spoken by people over the age of fifty by 2005, is a polysynthetic language.
- It is a polysynthetic language with head marking and an inverse system ( Romero-M�ndez 2008 ).
- Incorporation is central to many polysynthetic languages such as those found in North America, Siberia and northern Australia.
- However, the linguistic community has largely rejected these claims, preferring to categorize Nahuatl and Blackfoot as polysynthetic.
- Given its polysynthetic nature, Salish-Spokane-Kalispel encodes meaning in single morphemes rather than lexical items.
- Another common feature of polysynthetic languages is a tendency to use head marking as a means of syntactic cohesion.
- Mohawk is a polysynthetic language : Its verbs may be long and complicated, made up of many different parts.
- There are two third persons, polysynthetic, resulting in a great deal of information being encoded on the verb.
- "Salishan languages are highly polysynthetic, employing numerous suffixes and reduplication patterns; prefixes and infixes are less numerous.
- Typologically, Saulteaux is an agglutinating or polysynthetic language which means that it relies heavily on affixation to express meaning.