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vi, 338 pages : maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
"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"--
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.
edited by Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia, Eneko Zuloaga.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025
Typological studies in language ; v. 135