| A single polysynthetic word may incorporate the information it would take an entire sentence to say in English. |
| Languages that work like this, where whole phrases or clauses can be formed in one word by attaching affixes to noun stems or verbs, are called polysynthetic. |
| A polysynthetic language, as its name implies, is more than ordinarily synthetic. |
| Mohawk is a polysynthetic language, in which noun objects can easily be incorporated into the verb. |
| A polysynthetic language illustrates no principles that are not already exemplified in the more familiar synthetic languages. |
| Furthermore, upon only cursory examination some perthitic textures may be mistaken for polysynthetic twinning. |
