ABSTRACT
Tendency in some languages, especially in polysynthetic languages ( polysynthesis) of the Americas, to use highly descriptive terms for names or objects, cf. Iroquoian (Oneida) skahnaks ‘fox,’ literally ‘the one who is bad in reference to his fur.’ ( also incorporating language)
1 denotation2 2 extension 3 In glossematics, the relation between (linguistic) form and the (extralinguistic)
substance on the semantic level.
