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Lyle Campbell presents an accessible, hands-on introduction to
historical linguistics - one that does not just talk about the
topics, but through practical exercises and examples shows you how
to apply the procedures, how to think about the issues and, in
general, how to do what historical linguists do. This 4th edition
covers a wide range of topics including areal linguistics,
linguistic prehistory, distant genetic relationships, language
contact, lexical and semantic change, sociolinguistics and language
change, quantitative and corpus research methods. Examples are
drawn from a wide range of languages including English, French,
German, and Spanish as well many non-Indo-European languages. With
its lucid and engaging style, expert guidance and comprehensive
coverage, this book is ideal for students coming to historical
linguistics for the first time.
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.
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 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.
Lyle Campbell's linguistic fieldwork has taken him to numerous
countries, sometimes in challenging circumstances. It has led to
exciting discoveries including a new language in southeastern
Guatemala, a unique speech sound, unknown in any other language, in
the Nivacle language of Paraguay and Argentina, and unusual and
unique features in several other languages. Along the way, he has
experienced dangers and challenges, the joys and excitement of
fieldwork, and encountered first-hand the importance of
collaborating with indigenous groups to help document and
revitalize their languages. Written with humour, heart, and a clear
dedication to endangered languages and their speakers, Lyle's vivid
memoir is a lesson not only on life in the field but on the
importance of language documentation. With so many of the world's
languages being lost at an alarming rate, this remains the most
compelling and urgent task for linguists now and into the future.
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new
perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes
state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across
theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new
insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary
perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for
cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in
its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards
linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as
well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for
a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the
ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes
monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes,
which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from
different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality
standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
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 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.
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.
Lyle Campbell's linguistic fieldwork has taken him to numerous
countries, sometimes in challenging circumstances. It has led to
exciting discoveries including a new language in southeastern
Guatemala, a unique speech sound, unknown in any other language, in
the Nivacle language of Paraguay and Argentina, and unusual and
unique features in several other languages. Along the way, he has
experienced dangers and challenges, the joys and excitement of
fieldwork, and encountered first-hand the importance of
collaborating with indigenous groups to help document and
revitalize their languages. Written with humour, heart, and a clear
dedication to endangered languages and their speakers, Lyle's vivid
memoir is a lesson not only on life in the field but on the
importance of language documentation. With so many of the world's
languages being lost at an alarming rate, this remains the most
compelling and urgent task for linguists now and into the future.
This book offers an extensive description of Nivacle , an
indigenous language spoken in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina
and Paraguay. Nivacle 's phonology, morphology, and syntax are
complex; the language has no tenses marked on verbs, essentially no
prepositions, and a sizable number of lexical suffixes whose
content is so concrete they would be expected to be independent
words in most other languages. Nivacle has a unique speech sound,
/k l/, known nowhere else. In some locations where it is spoken,
multilingual conversations are the norm. These and other rare
traits make Nivacle an especially fascinating language for
linguists, with many implications for language typology and
linguistic theory. The book is based on dozens of audio and video
recordings of narratives and on hundreds of hours of elicitation
and analysis with native speakers. Four lengthy texts are included
here to demonstrate the language in action. Scholars - whether in
anthropology, folklore, geography, history, or language - will find
value in the narratives included here and in the insights into
Nivacle life and culture found throughout the book.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Lyle Campbell presents an accessible, hands-on introduction to
historical linguistics - one that does not just talk about the
topics, but through practical exercises and examples shows you how
to apply the procedures, how to think about the issues and, in
general, how to do what historical linguists do. This 4th edition
covers a wide range of topics including areal linguistics,
linguistic prehistory, distant genetic relationships, language
contact, lexical and semantic change, sociolinguistics and language
change, quantitative and corpus research methods. Examples are
drawn from a wide range of languages including English, French,
German, and Spanish as well many non-Indo-European languages. With
its lucid and engaging style, expert guidance and comprehensive
coverage, this book is ideal for students coming to historical
linguistics for the first time.
New Zealand English - at just 150 years old - is one of the newest
varieties of English, and is unique in that its full history and
development are documented in extensive audio-recordings. The rich
corpus of spoken language provided by New Zealand's 'mobile disk
unit' has provided insight into how the earliest New Zealand-born
settlers spoke, and consequently, how this new variety of English
developed. On the basis of these recordings, this book examines and
analyses the extensive linguistic changes New Zealand English has
undergone since it was first spoken in the 1850s. The authors, all
experts in phonetics and sociolinguistics, use the data to test
previous explanations for new dialect formation, and to challenge
current claims about the nature of language change. The first ever
corpus-based study of the evolution of New Zealand English, this
book will be welcomed by all those interested in phonetics,
sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and dialectology.
How are relationships established between the world's languages?
This is one of the most topical and most controversial questions in
contemporary linguistics. The central aims of the book are to
answer this question, to cut through the controversies, and to
contribute to research in distant genetic relationships. In doing
this the authors aim to: (1) show how the methods have been
employed; (2) reveal which methods, techniques, and strategies have
proven successful and which ones have proven ineffective; (3)
determine how particular language families were established; (4)
evaluate several of the most prominent and more controversial
proposals of distant genetic relationship (such as Amerind,
Nostratic, Eurasiatic, Proto-World, and others); and (5) make
recommendations for practice in future research. This book will
contribute significantly to understanding language classification
in general.
New Zealand English - at just 150 years old - is one of the newest
varieties of English, and is unique in that its full history and
development are documented in extensive audio-recordings. The rich
corpus of spoken language provided by New Zealand's 'mobile disk
unit' has provided insight into how the earliest New Zealand-born
settlers spoke, and consequently, how this new variety of English
developed. On the basis of these recordings, this book examines and
analyses the extensive linguistic changes New Zealand English has
undergone since it was first spoken in the 1850s. The authors, all
experts in phonetics and sociolinguistics, use the data to test
previous explanations for new dialect formation, and to challenge
current claims about the nature of language change. The first ever
corpus-based study of the evolution of New Zealand English, this
book will be welcomed by all those interested in phonetics,
sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and dialectology.
Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eskimoan). Campbell's project is to take stock of what is currently known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American-Indian historical linguistics, and the success and failure of its various methodologies.
In this major new work Alice Harris and Lyle Campbell set out to
establish a general framework for the investigation of linguistic
change. Systematic cross-linguistic comparison of syntactic change
across a wide variety of languages is used to construct hypotheses
about the universals and limits of language change more generally.
In particular, the authors seek to move closer towards describing
the range of causes of syntactic change to develop an understanding
of the mechanisms of syntactic change, and to provide an
understanding of why some languages undergo certain changes and not
others. The authors draw on languages as diverse as Pipil and
French, Georgian and Estonian, and the data presented is one of the
book's great strengths. Rigor and precision are combined here with
a great breadth of scholarship to produce a unique resource for the
study of linguistic change, which will be of use to scholars and
students alike.
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 andComparative 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."
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