Language Isolates

Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317610915

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Language Isolates by Lyle Campbell Pdf

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 and language isolates by geographic regions, with up-to-date descriptions of many, including previously unrecorded language isolates. Each language isolate represents a unique lineage and a unique window on what is possible in human language, making this an essential volume for anyone interested in understanding the diversity of languages and the very nature of human language. Language Isolates is key reading for professionals and students in linguistics and anthropology.

Author : Patience Epps,Lev Michael
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110432732

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Language Isolates II: Kanoé to Yurakaré by Patience Epps,Lev Michael Pdf

The goal of this handbook is to provide a comprehensive resource on the Amazonian languages that synthesizes a diverse body of work by a highly international group of linguists. It will provide a review of the current state of the art, thus laying the groundwork for future scholarship in this important area. Volume 2 will focus on theory-neutral grammatical descriptions of smaller Amazonian language families.

Author : Patience Epps,Lev Michael
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110419405

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Language Isolates I: Aikanã to Kandozi-Shapra by Patience Epps,Lev Michael Pdf

This handbook provides the first broadly comprehensive, typologically-informed descriptive overview of the languages of Greater Amazonia. Organized by genealogical units, the chapters provide empirically rich descriptions of the phonology and grammar of all Amazonian families and isolates for which data and descriptions exist. Volume 1 focuses on the many isolates of the region – those languages for which no extant sisters can be identified.

Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317610908

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Language Isolates by Lyle Campbell Pdf

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 and language isolates by geographic regions, with up-to-date descriptions of many, including previously unrecorded language isolates. Each language isolate represents a unique lineage and a unique window on what is possible in human language, making this an essential volume for anyone interested in understanding the diversity of languages and the very nature of human language. Language Isolates is key reading for professionals and students in linguistics and anthropology.

Author : Lyle Campbell,Anna Belew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317413899

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Cataloguing the World's Endangered Languages by Lyle Campbell,Anna Belew Pdf

Cataloguing the World’s Endangered Languages brings together the results of the extensive and influential Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) project. Based on the findings from the most extensive endangered languages research project, this is the most comprehensive source of accurate information on endangered languages. The book presents the academic and scientific findings that underpin the online Catalogue, located at www.endangeredlanguages.com, making it an essential companion to the website for academics and researchers working in this area. While the online Catalogue displays much data from the ELCat project, this volume develops and emphasizes aspects of the research behind the data and includes topics of great interest in the field, not previously covered in a single volume. Cataloguing the World’s Endangered Languages is an important volume of particular interest to academics and researchers working with endangered languages.

Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262542180

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Historical Linguistics, fourth edition by Lyle Campbell Pdf

The new edition of a comprehensive, accessible, and hands-on text in historical linguistics, revised and expanded, with new material and a new layout. This accessible, hands-on textbook not only introduces students to the important topics in historical linguistics but also shows them how to apply the methods described and how to think about the issues. Abundant examples from a broad range of languages and exercises allow students to focus on how to do historical linguistics. The book is distinctive for its integration of the standard topics with others now considered important to the field, including syntactic change, grammaticalization, sociolinguistic contributions to linguistic change, distant genetic relationships, areal linguistics, and linguistic prehistory.

Author : Mily Crevels,Pieter Muysken
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191035753

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Language Dispersal, Diversification, and Contact by Mily Crevels,Pieter Muysken Pdf

This book addresses the complex question of how and why languages have spread across the globe: why do we find large language families distributed over a wide area in some regions, while elsewhere we find clusters of very small families or language isolates? What roles have agriculture, geography, climate, ethnic identity, and language ideologies played in language spread? In this volume, international experts in the field provide new answers to these and related questions, drawing on the increasingly large databases available and on novel analytical research techniques. The first part of the volume outlines some general issues and approaches in the study of language dispersal, diversification, and contact. In the rest of the volume, chapters compare the language and population histories of three major regions - Island Southeast Asia/Oceania, Africa, and South America - which show particularly interesting contrasts in the distribution of languages and language families. The volume is interdisciplinary in approach, with insights from archaeology, genetics, anthropology, and geography, and will be of interest to a wide range of scholars interested in language diversity and contact.

Author : Patience Epps,Lev Michael
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110419610

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Language Isolates I: Aikanã to Kandozi-Shapra by Patience Epps,Lev Michael Pdf

The series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Eskimos
ISBN : UOM:39015018329170

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Handbook of North American Indians: Northwest coast by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patience Epps,Lev Michael
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110432848

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Language Isolates II: Kanoé to Yurakaré by Patience Epps,Lev Michael Pdf

The series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.

Author : Stefan Georg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 0415827345

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Language Isolates by Stefan Georg Pdf

Author : George Melville Bolling,Bernard Bloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Comparative linguistics
ISBN : IND:30000125195002

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Language by George Melville Bolling,Bernard Bloch Pdf

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society in v. 1-11, 1925-34. After 1934 they appear in Its Bulletin.

Author : David Gil,Antoinette Schapper
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260536

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Austronesian Undressed by David Gil,Antoinette Schapper Pdf

Many Austronesian languages exhibit isolating word structure. This volume offers a series of investigations into these languages, which are found in an "isolating crescent" extending from Mainland Southeast Asia through the Indonesian archipelago and into western New Guinea. Some of the languages examined in this volume include Cham, Minangkabau, colloquial Malay/Indonesian and Javanese, Lio, Alorese, and Tetun Dili. The main purpose of this volume is to address the general question of how and why languages become isolating, by examination of a number of competing hypotheses. While some view morphological loss as a natural process, others argue that the development of isolating word structure is typically driven by language contact through various mechanisms such as creolization, metatypy, and Sprachbund effects. This volume should be of interest not only to Austronesianists and historians of Insular Southeast Asia, but also to grammarians, typologists, historical linguists, creolists, and specialists in language contact.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : WISC:89096020219

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Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lyle Campbell,Marianne Mithun
Publisher : Austin : University of Texas Press
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1979-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106016575877

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The Languages of Native America by Lyle Campbell,Marianne Mithun Pdf

These essays were drawn from the papers presented at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1976. The contents are as follows: Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun, "Introduction: North American Indian Historical Linguistics in Current Perspective" Ives Goddard, "Comparative Algonquian" Marianne Mithun, "Iroquoian" Wallace L. Chafe, "Caddoan" David S. Rood, "Siouan" Mary R. Haas, "Southeastern Languages" James M. Crawford, "Timucua and Yuchi: Two Language Isolates of the Southeast" Ives Goddard, "The Languages of South Texas and the Lower Rio Grande" Irvine Davis, "The Kiowa-Tanoan, Keresan, and Zuni Languages" Susan Steele, "Uto-Aztecan: An Assessment for Historical and Comparative Linguistics" William H. Jacobsen, Jr., "Hokan lnter-Branch Comparisons" Margaret Langdon, "Some Thoughts on Hokan with Particular Reference to Pomoan and Yuman" Michael Silverstein, ''Penutian: An Assessment" Laurence C. Thompson, "Salishan and the Northwest" William H. Jacobsen, Jr., "Wakashan Comparative Studies" William H. Jacobsen, Jr., "Chimakuan Comparative Studies" Michael E. Krauss, "Na-Dene and Eskimo-Aleut" Lyle CampbelI, "Middle American Languages" Eric S. Hamp, "A Glance from Now On."