American Indian Languages The Historical Linguistics of Native America

Name: American Indian Languages The Historical Linguistics of Native America
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ISBN: 9780195140507

ISBN-10: 0195140508

ISBN-13: 9780195140507

Edition: 2000

Authors: Lyle Campbell

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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. There is remarkably little consensus in the field, largely due to the 1987 publication of Language in the Americas by Joseph Greenberg. He claimed to trace a historical relation between all American Indian languages of North and South America,…

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List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/21/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.49" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English



Phonetic Symbols


Note on the Classification Lists and the Maps



Introduction



Native American Pidgins and Trade Languages



The History of American Indian Linguistics



Comparison of Major Classifications of North American Languages



The Origin of Native American Languages



Languages of North America



Languages of Middle America



Languages of South America



Distant Genetic Relationships: The Methods



Distant Genetic Relationships: The Proposals



Linguistic Areas of the Americas


Maps


Notes


References


Index of Languages, Language Families, and Proposed Genetic Relationships


Author Index


Subject Index