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ORE of Linguistics now Available via Subscription
After a successful free period during development, the ORE of Linguistics is now available via subscription. With over 200 articles and summaries available, the ORE provides in-depth overviews of the major areas of research and will continue to grow with the field over time. Read more about the project or learn how to subscribe.
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Polysynthesis: A Diachronic and Typological Perspective
“Polysynthetic languages are more than just languages with very long words. Although this is undoubtedly part of the picture (see Greenberg, 1960, for a quantitative approach putting Eskimo at the head of the field), languages like German and Sanskrit also have long words, but no one would want to call them polysynthetic...” –By Michael Fortescue