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Investigating Language Isolates
Typological and diachronic perspectives
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2025
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
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Acknowledgements
vii - Part I. Setting the stage
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Introduction
2 - Part II. Typological features of isolates vs. non-isolates
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Is there a typological profile of isolates?
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The Amuric language family
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An Austronesian-type voice system in an Amazonian isolate?
71 - Part III. Recovering the histories of isolates
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Etymologies in a language isolate
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The Small Bang
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Combining disparate lines of evidence in the study of the history of language isolates, exemplified with Mochica from Northern Peru
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The Múra doculects and Múra-Pirahã historical linguistics
208 - Part IV. Isolates and language contact
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Baroque accretions and isolation
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California isolates
270 - Part V. Isolates and language documentation and classification
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One language or two?
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Subject index
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Language index
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Name index
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March 18, 2025
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9789027246295
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Front matter:
7
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339
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9789027246295
Keywords for this book
Historical linguistics; Linguistics of isolated languages; Theoretical linguistics; Typology
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
