The Indigenous Languages of the Americas: History and Classification

ISBN-13: 9780197673461 / Angielski

Campbell

Recenzje

This book offers a detailed account of all the languages which are native to the Americas. Authored by Professor Lyle Campbell, one of the world's greatest experts in this highly complex field, it takes the reader on a breathtaking journey through three subcontinents, home to a thousand languages, either vital or dormant, and divided over more than 160 unrelated language families and isolates. It exposes the incredible linguistic diversity and richness of the New World... struggling to preserve a unique heritage of multilingual and multicultural diversity. The history of pioneering classificatory efforts, as well as significant recent advances in language classification related to the Americas, receive all the attention to which they are entitled.

O autorze

Lyle Campbell, PhD is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawai'i Manoa. His specializations include Indigenous languages of the Americas, historical linguistic documentation, fieldwork, and language typology. He has held appointments in Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, and Spanish.