1st Edition

Language Isolates

Edited By Lyle Campbell Copyright 2018
392 Pages
by Routledge

392 Pages
by Routledge

392 Pages
by Routledge

Language Isolates explores this fascinating group of languages that surprisingly comprise a third of the world’s languages. Individual chapters written by experts on these languages examine the world's major language isolates by geographic regions, with up-to-date descriptions of many, including previously unrecorded language isolates. Each language isolate represents a unique lineage... Read more




    List of Figures



    List of Maps



    List of Tables



    List of Contributors



    Introduction (Lyle Campbell)





    Chapter 1 Language Isolates and their history (Lyle Campbell)



    Chapter 2 Ancient Near Eastern and European isolates (Piotr Michalowski)



    Chapter 3 Basque and the reconstruction of isolated languages (Joseba A. Lakarra)



    Chapter 4 Ainu (Thomas Dougherty)



    Chapter 5 Burushaski (Alexander D. Smith)



    Chapter 6 Other isolated languages of Asia (Stefan Georg)



    Chapter 7 African language isolates (Roger Blench)



    Chapter 8 Language isolates of North America (Marianne Mithun)



    Chapter 9 Language isolates of Mesoamerica and Northern Mexico (Raina Heaton)



    Chapter 10 Language isolates in South America (Frank Seifart and Harald Hammarström)



    Chapter 11 Language isolates in the New Guinea region (Harald Hammarström)



    Chapter 12 Language isolates of Australia (Claire Bowern)



    Chapter 13 Endangerment of language isolates (Eve Okura) References



    Index

    Biography

    Lyle Campbell is a linguist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa. He has also held joint appointments in Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, and Spanish.