Another common feature of polysynthetic languages is a tendency to use head marking as a means of syntactic cohesion.
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Mohawk is a polysynthetic language : Its verbs may be long and complicated, made up of many different parts.
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Typologically, Saulteaux is an agglutinating or polysynthetic language which means that it relies heavily on affixation to express meaning.
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Affixally polysynthetic languages do not use noun incorporation or verb serialisation, since this violates the rule concerning the number of roots allowable per word.
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Many polysynthetic languages combine these two strategies, and also have ways of inflecting verbs for concepts normally encoded by adverbs or adjectives in Indo-European languages.
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Oligosynthesis is almost entirely theoretical and would depend heavily on the creation of lengthy compound words, to an extent far exceeding that of natural polysynthetic languages.
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Yupik is a polysynthetic language that can have analytic alternatives; speakers can express similar ideas in a series of words with a number of bound morphemes.
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It is believed that all affixally polysynthetic languages evolved from compositionally polysynthetic ones via the conversion of morphemes that could stand on their own into affixes.
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Generally polysynthetic languages have polypersonal agreement although some agglutinative languages that aren't polysynthetic can also have it, such as head-marking, or those that frequently use noun incorporation.
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Because they possess a greater number of free morphemes, compositionally polysynthetic languages are much more prone than affixally polysynthetic ones to evolve into simpler languages with less complex words.
