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

by Thiago Costa Chacon (Editor), Nala H. Lee (Editor), W.D.L Silva (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474488136
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	02/12/2024
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Thiago Costa Chacon is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Brasília.

Nala H. Lee is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the National University of Singapore

Wilson Silva is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona

Table of Contents

1. Language Change and Diversity at the crossroads of Historical Linguistics, Language Documentation, and Linguistic Typology by Thiago Chacon, Nala H. Lee and Wilson Silva2. Using the acoustic correlates of voice quality as explanations for the changes in the descriptions of Xinkan glottalized consonants by Chris Rogers3. Variation and change in the distribution of *-(V)n and *-(V)w in Kaqchikel by Raina Heaton4. Origins of metathesis in Batsbi, part II: Intransitive verbs by Alice C. Harris 5. Some remarks on etymological opacity in Austronesian languages by Robert Blust6. The relationship between Aquitanian and Basque: Achievements and challenges of the comparative method in a context of poor documentation by Joaquin Gorrochategui7. Evidence, New and Old, Against the Late *k(’) > *ch(’) Areal Shift Hypothesis by David F. Mora Marín8. Are all language isolates equal? The case of Mapudungun by Willem F. H. Adelaar and Matthias Pache9. The historical linguistics and archaeology of ancient North America: "A linguistic look" at the Hopewell by Eve Koller10. The Lenguas de Bolivia project: Background and further prospects by Mily Crevels and Pieter Muysken11. The typology of grammatical relations in Tuparian languages with special focus on Akuntsú by Carolina Coelho Aragon and Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi12. Meskwaki (Algonquian) Evidence Against Basic Word Order and Configurational Models of Argument Roles by Ives Goddard and Amy Dahlstrom13. The Syntax of Alignment: An Emergentist Typology by William O’Grady

Editorial Reviews

There are few who have contributed so much to the understanding language documentation, historical linguistics, language typology, and language revitalization as Lyle Campbell. This book truly honours those contributions through chapters that combine aspects of these topics in rich and creative ways.

Keren Rice