Language Change and Linguistic Diversity: Studies in Honour of Lyle Campbell - Softcover

Chacon, Thiago Costa; Lee, Nala H; Silva, W D L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474488137 ISBN 13: 9781474488136

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Professor Lyle Campbell has had a long and distinguished career and his extensive work on the languages of Mesoamerica have inspired research and researchers. In this volume, contributors come together to present new data, analyses and theoretical perspectives on how understanding language change raises questions for language documentation, description and even revitalization. Coverage ranges from the linguistic isolates Basque and Mapundungun to large families such as Tupian and Austronesian and spans a range of theoretical issues including ongoing language change, etymological opacity, word order, alignment systems and grammatical relations, language contact, onomastics and the study of pre-history. The book shows that linguistic fieldwork, when carried out and used appropriately, allows for a more consistent understanding of language change, and for a better understanding of the ethnographic record. It also explores the junctures between language change, linguistic diversity and other related fields that draw on primary linguistic fieldwork.

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About the Author

Thiago Costa Chacon is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Brasília.

Nala H. Lee is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the National University of Singapore

Wilson Silva is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474488137
• ISBN 13: 9781474488136
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356
• Editor: Chacon Thiago Costa, Lee Nala H, Silva W D L