Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Part I. Setting the stage
5. Introduction 2
6. Part II. Typological features of isolates vs. non-isolates
7. Is there a typological profile of isolates? 22
8. The Amuric language family 48
9. An Austronesian-type voice system in an Amazonian isolate? 71
10. Part III. Recovering the histories of isolates
11. Etymologies in a language isolate 104
12. The Small Bang 142
13. Combining disparate lines of evidence in the study of the history of language isolates, exemplified with Mochica from Northern Peru 176
14. The Múra doculects and Múra-Pirahã historical linguistics 208
15. Part IV. Isolates and language contact
16. Baroque accretions and isolation 248
17. California isolates 270
18. Part V. Isolates and language documentation and classification
19. One language or two? 306
20. Subject index 335
21. Language index 337
22. Name index 339