ADJECTIVE
- forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning
How To Use polysynthetic In A Sentence
- Mohawk is a polysynthetic language, in which noun objects can easily be incorporated into the verb.
- Africa, speak a polysynthetic language, and _per contra_, that the Otomis of Mexico have a monosyllabic one like the Chinese. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
- A slightly bluish-gray feldspar, probably either microcline or orthoclase, without polysynthetic twinning lines occurs as crystals to 2 cm across.
- 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. Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
- 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.
- French noun phrases retain their lexical grammar and adjective agreement; Cree verbs retain their polysynthetic structure. Champlain's Dream
- Mohawk is a polysynthetic language, in which noun objects can easily be incorporated into the verb.
- As Geoffrey Pullum pointed out in the Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax, Inuit languages like the west Greenlandic Kalaallisut spoken in Kangerlussuaq, are polysynthetic. Running the Polar Circle marathon
- Human languages fall into four groups: inflecting ones as in Anglo-American, positional as in Chinese, agglutinative as in Old Turkish, polysynthetic (sentence units) as in Eskimo-to which, of course, we now add alien structures as wildly odd and as nearly impossible for the human brain as non-repetitive or emergent Venetian. Double Star
- The languages of the Huron-Iroquois family belong to what has been termed the polysynthetic class, and are distinguished, even in that class, by a more than ordinary endowment of that variety of forms and fullness of expression for which languages of that type are noted. The Iroquois Book of Rites
