Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Part I. Polysynthesis
5. Polysynthesis in the Arctic 3
6. Polysynthesis as a typological feature 19
7. Analytic vs. synthetic verbal constructions in Chukchi and West Greenlandic 35
8. Lexical polysynthesis 51
9. How synchronic is synchronic analysis? 65
10. Comparative constructions in Central Alaskan Yupik 81
11. Part II. Around the verb
12. The efficacy of anaphoricity in Aleut 97
13. Objective conjugations in Eskaleut and Uralic 115
14. Complex verb formation revisited 135
15. Determining the semantics of Inuktitut postbases 149
16. The marking of past time in Kalaallisut, the Greenlandic language 171
17. Part III. Discourses and contacts
18. Tracking topics 185
19. Arguments and information management in Inuktitut 201
20. Space and structure in Greenlandic oral tradition 215
21. Grammatical structures in Greenlandic as found in texts written by young Greenlanders at the turn of the millennium 231
22. Chat – New rooms for language contact 249
23. Seward Peninsula Inupiaq and language contact around Bering Strait 261
24. Typological constraints on code mixing in Inuktitut–English bilingual adults 273
25. Index of languages 307
26. Index of subjects 309