American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 4)
by Campbell, Lyle
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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 ofNative 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, implying that most of the Western Hemisphere wassettled by a single wave of immigration from Asia. This has caused intense controversy and Campbell, as a leading scholar in the field, intends this volume to be, in part, a response to Greenberg...
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- American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 4)
- Author
- Campbell, Lyle
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- Paperback
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- 0195140508
- ISBN 13
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- Oxford University Press
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- Oxford
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- August 28, 2000
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