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

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

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Foreign Language GeneralLinguistics

ISBN10: 1474488137
ISBN13: 9781474488136
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Feb 12 2024
Pages: 356
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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