This is a landmark breakthrough, both within linguistics, which will thereby become a full-fledged science for the first time, and in our understanding of the human mind.

Table of contents

This book investigates in detail the grammar of polysynthetic languages--those with very complex verbal morphology.

This book develops a theory of the agreement processes found in language, and considers why verbs agree with subjects in person, adjectives agree in number and gender but not person, and nouns do not agree at all.

This book develops a theory of the agreement processes found in language, and considers why verbs agree with subjects in person, adjectives agree in number and gender but not person, and nouns do not agree at all.

This book investigates in detail the grammar of polysynthetic languages--those with very complex verbal morphology.

The book includes a detailed table of contents, a comprehensive index, a list of sources and a glossary of technical terms. This book is available in a hardcover version, which also features higher quality paper and enhanced printing.

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 ...