How ‘concrete' is West Greenlandic?. Fortescue, M. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 27(1):131–146, January, 1994. Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.1994.10420399
Paper doi abstract bibtex Anyone familiar with West Greenlandic - or any other Eskimo language - is unlikely to disagree with the suggestion that this language is in some sense more ‘concrete’` than that of modern European languages. Statements to this effect can be - and have been - made for various languages spoken by hunter-gatherers, particularly within the anthropological linguistic tradition of North America. However, convincing evidence for claims that a given language is lacking in abstract expressions is hard to come by. In fact, counter-evidence is readily to be found in the case of West Greenlandic: one need only think of such derivational suffixes for forming abstract nouns as -ssuseq (‘quality of), to be discussed in section 2 below.
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