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  title info:
    title: Investigating language isolates
    sub title: typological and diachronic perspectives
  name:
    name part: Salaberri, Iker
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Krajewska, Dorota
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Santazilia, Ekaitz
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Zuloaga, Eneko
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Essays.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 338 pages : maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
  abstract: "Language isolates provide unique insights into human history and linguistic diversity. Nevertheless, isolates have been studied less exhaustively than non-isolates. The eleven papers gathered in this volume provide new methodological tools in order to better understand isolates, including a detailed, in-depth, up-to-date discussion of what it means to be a language isolate and the criteria by which languages should be classified as isolate. The book also provides a series of techniques, some refined on the basis of former literature, and others new, in order to recover the histories of language isolates. In addition, the papers in this volume advance our knowledge about each of the individual languages studied here, which are, for the most part, endangered and under-documented. This book will appeal to a broad audience spanning typologists, historical linguists, descriptive linguists, and teachers of linguistics"--
  table of contents: Part I. Setting the stage -- Introduction: state of the art of research on language isolates / Iker Salaberri, Doroko Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia, Eneko Zuloaga -- Part II. Typological features of isolates vs. non-isolates -- Is there a typological profile of isolates? / Marine Vuillermet, David Inman, Natalia Chousou-Polyduori, Kellen Parker van Dam, Shelece Easterday, Françoise Rose -- The Amuric language family: why so exotic? / Ekaterina Gruzdeva, Juha Janhunen -- An Austronesian-type voice system in an Amazonian isolate / Katharina Haude -- Part III. Recovering the histories of isolates -- Etymologies in a language isolate: methodological aspects and a proposal to evaluate their quality / Julen Manterola -- The Small Bang: a pilot study investigating the origins of a language and population isolate through loan words / Abbie Hantgan -- Combining disparate lines of evidence in the study of the history of language isolates, exemplified with Mochica from Northern Peru / matthia Urban -- The Múra doculects and Múra-Pirahã historical linguistics / Fernando O. de Carvalho -- Part IV. Isolates and language contact -- Baroque accretions and isolation: a case study of grammatical complexity in complex social situations in Solomon Islands / Angelea Terrill -- California isolates: language contact and genetic classification / Carmen Dagostino -- Part V. Isolates and language documentation and classification -- One language or two? The arbitrariness of isolate classifications in New Guinea / Antoinette Schapper.
  note: edited by Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia, Eneko Zuloaga.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Language isolates
  classification: P371 .I59 2025
  classification: 407.2
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Investigating language isolates
    origin info:
      publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025
    identifier: (DLC) 2024047342
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Typological studies in language ; v. 135
  identifier: 9789027218995
  identifier: 9027218994
  identifier: 9789027246295
  identifier: 2024047341
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 241129
    record change date: 20250802185400.1
    record identifier: in00005655060
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng