Oxford University Press Inc Sivumäärä: 576 sivua Asu: Kovakantinen kirja Painos: Hardback Julkaisuvuosi: 1996, 08.02.1996 (lisätietoa) Kieli: Englanti
Baker argues that polysynthetic languages - in which verbs are built up of many parts and where one verb can act as a whole sentence - are more than an accidental collection of morphological processes; rather they adopt a systematic way of representing predicate-argument relationships, parallel to but distinct from the system used for English.