Items related to Language Isolates (Routledge Language Family Series)

Language Isolates (Routledge Language Family Series) - Hardcover

Book 19 of 27: Routledge Language Family Series
 
9781138821057: Language Isolates (Routledge Language Family Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1138821055 ISBN 13: 9781138821057
Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Language Isolates explores this fascinating group of languages that surprisingly comprise a third of the world’s languages.

Individual chapters written by experts on these languages examine the world's major language isolates by geographic regions, with up-to-date descriptions of many, including previously unrecorded language isolates. Each language isolate represents a unique lineage and a unique window on what is possible in human language, making this an essential volume for anyone interested in understanding the diversity of languages and the very nature of human language.

Language Isolates is key reading for professionals and students in linguistics and anthropology.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Lyle Campbell is a linguist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa. He has also held joint appointments in Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, and Spanish.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138821055
ISBN 13 
9781138821057
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
378
Editor
Campbell Lyle