Investigating language isolates : typological and diachronic perspectives /
"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 de...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2025]
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| Series: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 135. |
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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.