Polysyllabism
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1936, Martin Joos, "Book Review: The Psycho-Biology of Language by George K. Zipf," Language, vol. 12, no. 3 (July/Sep), p. 202, Chinese polysyllabism is a sort of synthesis, or aggregation, or 'addition' of morphemes and their meanings.
Cumbrous compounds are formed as the names of objects and a character of tedious and time-wasting polysyllabism is given to the language.
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