DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmapolysynthetic language
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaSapir (1921)
TitoloLanguage
Sinonimi 
Rinviiaffixing (inglese)
derivational concept (inglese)
radical element (inglese)
syntactic relation (inglese)
synthetic language (inglese)
word (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

A polysynthetic language [...] is more than ordinary synthetic [...] Concepts which we should never dream of treating in a subordinate fashion are symbolized by derivational affixes or 'symbolic' changes in the radical element, while the more abstract notions, including the syntactic relations, may also be conveyed by the word.
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 128