polysynthetic

How To Use polysynthetic In A Sentence

• Mohawk is a polysynthetic language, in which noun objects can easily be incorporated into the verb.
• As Geoff points out, the Inuit's polysynthetic language puts them in a strong position to make up descriptive words like this.
• Unlike English, Iñupiaq is a polysynthetic language - dozens of affixes can add nuance to the meaning of a simple noun like snow.
• Languages that work like this, where whole phrases or clauses can be formed in one word by attaching affixes to noun stems or verbs, are called polysynthetic.
• Paonese was of that type known as "polysynthetic," with root words taking on prefixes, affixes and postpositions to extend their meaning. The Languages of Pao
• If, therefore, by the term "polysynthetic," which Mr. Duponceau, in 1819, introduced for the class of Indian languages, it be meant that its grammar consists of many syntheses, or plans of thought, it did not appear to me that the Chippewa was polysynthetic. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
• Considering that Eskimo languages are polysynthetic it is difficult to compare them to English.
• Like many Indian languages, it is polysynthetic, meaning that what we would express in a sentence the Maidu express in a single word containing a long string of suffixes.
• Since the linguists I've read say that none of the typology classifications flexionalal (fusional), agglutinative, isolating (analytical) or polysynthetic fit any language perfectly you probably do have some wiggle room to say that Vietnamese has some non-isolating characteristics. Languagehat.com: GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CHINESE.
• But what I have already said will perhaps suffice to show to genuine philological students that a language which, preserving so many of the roots in the aboriginal form, and clearing from the immediate, but transitory, polysynthetical stage so many rude incumbrances, s from popular ignorance into that popular passion or ferocity which precedes its decease, as (to cite illustrations from the upper world) during the The Coming Race