Language Isolates (Routledge Language Family Series) - 9781138821057

Introduction -- Language Isolates and Their History / Lyle Campbell -- Ancient Near Eastern and European Isolates / Piotr Michalowski -- Basque and the Reconstruction of Isolated Languages / Joseba A. Lakarra -- Ainu / Thomas Dougherty -- Burushaski / Alexander D. Smith -- Other isolated Languages of Asia / Stefan Georg -- African Language Isolates / Roger Blench -- Language Isolates of North America / Marianne Mithun -- Language Isolates of Mesoamerica and Northern Mexico / Raina Heaton -- Language Isolates in South America / Frank Seifart and Harald Hammarstr÷m -- Language Isolates in the New Guinea region / Harald Hammarstr÷m -- Language Isolates of Australia / Claire Bowern -- Endangerment of Language Isolates / Eve Okura

• | Author: Lyle Campbell
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Sep 25, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 378 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138821055
• | ISBN-13: 9781138821057