<scp>Lyle Campbell</scp>, American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America . (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 4.) Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 512. Hb $75.00.
For more than a decade, Americanists have been working in the shadow of Greenberg's Language in the Americas (1987) and the hemisphere-wide classification of American Indian languages proposed there. Greenberg's work, based for the most part on naïve comparisons of lexical data with which...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0047404500321030 2024-03-03T08:36:25+00:00 <scp>Lyle Campbell</scp>, American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America . (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 4.) Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 512. Hb $75.00. Golla, Victor 2000 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500321030 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0047404500321030 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Language in Society volume 29, issue 1, page 150-153 ISSN 0047-4045 1469-8013 Linguistics and Language Sociology and Political Science Language and Linguistics journal-article 2000 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500321030 2024-02-08T08:30:36Z For more than a decade, Americanists have been working in the shadow of Greenberg's Language in the Americas (1987) and the hemisphere-wide classification of American Indian languages proposed there. Greenberg's work, based for the most part on naïve comparisons of lexical data with which he was largely unfamiliar, was met with considerable skepticism by scholars familiar with the problems of American linguistic classification. But Greenberg, a senior linguist who is widely recognized as the father of modern linguistic typology, aggressively defended his methods and results, and he made allies among geneticists and archeologists who found that his tripartite classification (Eskimo-Aleut, Na-Dene, and “Amerind”) dovetailed with some of their own ideas. Moreover, his book was published by a leading university press. Mainly for these reasons – certainly not for its critical acceptance – Language in the Americas has become a standard reference work. It is in most academic libraries in North America, and in many it is given a place of honor on the reference shelf – together with Merritt Ruhlen's Guide to the world's languages , I: Classification (published by the same press, 1987), which, at least for the Americas, does little more than uncritically recapitulate Greenberg. Article in Journal/Newspaper aleut eskimo* Eskimo–Aleut Cambridge University Press Indian Language in Society 29 1 150 153 |
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For more than a decade, Americanists have been working in the shadow of Greenberg's Language in the Americas (1987) and the hemisphere-wide classification of American Indian languages proposed there. Greenberg's work, based for the most part on naïve comparisons of lexical data with which he was largely unfamiliar, was met with considerable skepticism by scholars familiar with the problems of American linguistic classification. But Greenberg, a senior linguist who is widely recognized as the father of modern linguistic typology, aggressively defended his methods and results, and he made allies among geneticists and archeologists who found that his tripartite classification (Eskimo-Aleut, Na-Dene, and “Amerind”) dovetailed with some of their own ideas. Moreover, his book was published by a leading university press. Mainly for these reasons – certainly not for its critical acceptance – Language in the Americas has become a standard reference work. It is in most academic libraries in North America, and in many it is given a place of honor on the reference shelf – together with Merritt Ruhlen's Guide to the world's languages , I: Classification (published by the same press, 1987), which, at least for the Americas, does little more than uncritically recapitulate Greenberg. |
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