Re: THEORY: Polysynthetic languages - used in a sentence?

TW:

" > Can this be used further in a sentence (i.e., "qasu-etc foo")?

Yes.  What's more amazing is that IIRC in Greenlandic, which is
closely related, incorporated nouns may be referential and even
introduced as such in the discourse, contrary to a lot of functionalist
literature."

Explain?

"> Can this be used further in a sentence (i.e., "qasu-etc foo")?

Yes, of course.  E.g. you could add 'in the beginning'.  And for
more complex subjects, you'd probably need more words, e.g.
if you wand to say 'Sai did not find ....', it'd probably be:"

... doesn't the example include the word "someone"? That would seem to
exclude giving it an explicit subject-agent.

For that matter, do these verbs *take* subjects / direct objects? I
would seem that their A/Ps are integrated in the morphology; I think
the examples given for "qasuetc foo" were obliques.

... and if that's so, then would they be the sort of language to use
word order for something other than A/P marking? If so, what?

... and lastly, it would seem that highly polysynthetic languages like
this would have major ambiguity problems (a la "inflammable"); how do
they avoid / cope with it?

- Sai