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Campbell CV 2021 CURRICULUM VITAE Lyle Campbell (2021) Address: Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i Mānoa 1890 East-West RoaD, Moore Hall 569 Honolulu, HI 96822 USA Email: lylecamp at hawaii dot eDu Education 1971 Ph.D. Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 1967 M.A. Linguistics, University of Washington 1966 B.A. Archaeology (& Anthropology) Employment 2010-2017: Professor of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i Mānoa (emeritus, 2017-present) 2006-2010: Presidential Professor, University of Utah 2004-2010: Professor of Linguistics, and Director of Center for American InDian Languages, University of Utah 1994-2004: Professor of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand 1989-94: Louisiana State University, Professor of Linguistics, Anthropology, and Spanish 1974-89: State University of New York, Albany; from assistant to full professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, Spanish, anD Latin American StuDies 1971-74: University of Missouri, assistant professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Behavioral Research. Publications Books: 2021 [In press] Linguist on the Loose: Fieldwork in Focus. EDinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2020 Nivaclé Grammar. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. (Lyle Campbell, Luis Díaz, anD FernanDo Ángel.) 2020 Historical Linguistics: an Introduction. (4th edition). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, and CambriDge, MA: MIT Press. (3rd edition 2013, 2nd edition 2004, 1st edition 1998.) [Chinese edition, 2007.] 2020 Instructor's Manual for Historical Linguistics. (2nd edition.) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; CambriDge: MIT Press. (Electronic, to accompany Historical Linguistics: an Introduction, 4th edition. Manual 1st edition 2013.). 2018 Handbook of Endangered Languages, eDiteD by Kenneth Rehg and Lyle Campbell. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018 Language isolates, eDiteD by Lyle Campbell. AbingDon anD New York: RoutleDge. 2018 Cataloguing of Endangered Languages, eDiteD by Lyle Campbell anD Anna Belew. LonDon: RoutleDge. 2012-2017 Catalogue of Endangered Languages. (www.endangeredlanguages.com.) [With several others.] 2012 The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. (Lyle Campbell anD Verónica GronDona, eDs.) 2008 Language classification: history and method. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press. (Lyle Campbell anD William J. Poser). 2007 Glossary of historical linguistics. EDinburgh: EDinburgh U Press; Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. (Lyle Campbell and Mauricio Mixco). 2006 Grammar from the Human Perspective: Case, Space, and Person in Finnish. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 277.) AmsterDam: Benjamins. (Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Lyle Campbell, eds.) 1 2004 New Zealand English: its Origins and Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Elizabeth GorDon, Lyle Campbell, Jennifer Hay, Margaret Maclagan, AnDrea SuDbury, anD Peter TruDgill.) 2001 Grammaticalization: a critical assessment, eD. by Lyle Campbell. (Special issue of Language Sciences, vol. 23, numbers 2-3.) 1997 American Indian languages: the historical linguistics of Native America. OxforD: OxforD University Press. (512pp.) [Winner of the Linguistic Society of America’s “Leonard Bloomfield Book Award,” 2000, for the best book in linguistics for the previous two years. NameD 1998 OutstanDing AcaDemic Book by Choice.] 1997 The Life of Language: Papers in Linguistics in Honor of William Bright, ed. by Jane Hill, P.J. Mistry, and Lyle Campbell. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1995 Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Alice C. Harris & Lyle Campbell) (488pp). [Winner of the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award, 1998.] (PublisheD in China 2007.) 1988 Panorama General de las Lenguas Indígenas en las Amerícas. Historia General de América, tomo 10. Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia. Caracas, Venezuela. (Ernesto Migliazza and Lyle Campbell). (456 pp.) 1988 The Linguistics of Southeast Chiapas. (Papers of the New World Archaeological FounDation, 51.) Provo, Utah. (416 pp). 1985 The Pipil language of El Salvador. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (947 pp.). 1985 The Foreign Impact of Lowland Mayan Languages and Script. (MidDle American Research Institute, publication 53.) New Orleans: Tulane University. (John Justeson, William Norman, Lyle Campbell, Terrence Kaufman). (97 pp.). 1984 Phoneticism in Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing. (Institute for Mesoamerican StuDies, Pub. 9.) SUNY Albany/University of Texas Press. (John Justeson anD Lyle Campbell, eDitors). (389 pp.) 1980 El Idioma Cacaopera. (Colección Antropología e Historia, 16.) ADministración del patrimonio cultural. San Salvador, El Salvador: Ministerio de Educación, Dirección de publicaciones. (32 pp, baseD on 1975 publication, below). 1979 The Languages of Native America: An Historical and Comparative Assessment. Austin: University of Texas Press. (Lyle Campbell anD Marianne Mithun, eDitors). (1034 pp.) 1978 Bibliography of Mayan Languages and Linguistics. Institute for Mesoamerican StuDies, Publication 3. SUNY Albany. (Lyle Campbell, P. Ventur, R. Stewart, anD B. GarDner). (189 pp.) 1977 Quichean Linguistic Prehistory. (University California Publications in Linguistics, 81.) Berkeley: University of California Press. (132 pp.). 1971 Cakchiquel Basic Course. Provo: Peace Corps. (Robert Blair, Lyle Campbell, et al.; 2 Vols., 362 pp., 505 pp.). ---------------------------- In press. El náwat (pipil). San Salvador, El Salvador: CONCULTURA. [Spanish version of 1985 book.] In press. El arte pipil (eDición paleográfica y facsímile, y comentario, Del manuscrito colonial Del pipil antiguo). San Salvador, El Salvador: CONCULTURA. (Lyle Campbell and Jorge Lemus). Articles, Chapters: 2021 The Historical StuDy of American InDian Languages: a Forty-Year Retrospective. Web of Relationships and Words from Long Ago: A Festschrift Presented to Ives Goddard on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday, eD. by Lucy Thomason, DaviD J. Costa, and Amy Dahlstrom, 45-61. Petoskey, MI: MunDart Press. 2020 Contact and South American indigenous languages. Handbook of Language Contact (2nD edition), eD. by Raymond Hickey, 625-648. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. (Lyle Campbell, Thiago Chacon, anD John Elliott.) 2020 Is Language Change Good or Bad? Questions About Language: What Everyone Should Know about Language in the 21st Century, eD. by Laurie Bauer anD AnDreea S. CaluDe, 80-90. Abingdon and New York: RoutleDge. (Lyle Campbell anD Russell Barlow). 2020 The History of Language EnDangerment Research with Personal Perspectives. Alternative Horizons in Linguistics: A Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Panchanan Mohanty, eD. by Tariq Khan, 19-40. Munich: LINCOM Europa. 2020 Lexical suffixes in Nivaclé and their implications. Contact, Structure, and Change: a Festschrift for Sarah G. Thomason, ed. by Anna Babel and Mark Sicoli, 277-315. Ann Arbor, MI: Maize Books. 2 2020 Lingüística histórica: el estado actual. Fontes Linguae Vasconum 50 urte: Ekarpen berriak euskararen ikerketari / Nuevas aportaciones al estudio de la lengua vasca, ed. by Santazilia, Ekaitz, Krajewska, Dorota, Zuloaga, Eneko, anD Ariztimuño, Borja, pp. 146-160. Pamplona-Iruña: Government of Navarre. 2020 Documentação lingüística e lingüística histórica. Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica 11.195-219. (Translation of 2016 article “Language Documentation and Historical Linguistics”. https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/ling/article/view/28821. 2020 Women’s contributions to early American InDian linguistics. Women in the history of linguistics, eD. by Wendy Ayres-Bennett anD Helena Sanson, 345-366. OxforD: Oxford University Press. (Raina Heaton, Eve Okura, anD Lyle Campbell.) 2019 How a historical linguist searches for answers. Scientific America, Special Issue: Truth, Lies, and Uncertainties: Searching for Reality in Uncertain Times (interview series by Brooke Borel, p. 38, September, 2019. https://www.scientificamerican.com/magazine/sa/2019/09-01/). (Spanish edition: La búsqueda de respuestas en lingüística histórica. Investigación y Ciencia: La búsqueda de respuestas en ciencia, noviembre 2019, by Brooke Borel. https://www.investigacionyciencia.es/revistas/investigacion- y-ciencia/verdades-mentiras-e-incertidumbres-782/la-bsqueda-de-respuestas-en-ciencia-17941.) 2018 Introduction. Language isolates, eDited by Lyle Campbell, xi-xiv. AbingDon anD New York: RoutleDge. 2018 Language Isolates anD their history. Language isolates, eDiteD by Lyle Campbell, 1-18. Abingdon and New York: RoutleDge. 2018 IntroDuction: Why Catalogue Endangered Languages? Cataloguing of Endangered Languages, eDiteD by Lyle Campbell and Anna Belew, 1-14. LonDon: Routledge. (Lyle Campbell and Anna Belew.) 2018 New Knowledge Produced by The Catalogue of Endangered Languages. Cataloguing Endangered Languages, eD. by Lyle Campbell anD Anna Belew, 79-84. AbingDon anD New York: RoutleDge. (Lyle Campbell and Eve Okura.) 2018 Language Classification and Cataloguing Endangered Languages. Cataloguing Endangered Languages, eD. by Lyle Campbell and Anna Belew, 23-48. LonDon: RoutleDge. (Russell Barlow anD Lyle Campbell.) 2018 IntroDuction. Handbook of Endangered Languages, eD. by Kenneth Rehg and Lyle Campbell, 1-18. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Lyle Campbell anD Kenneth Rehg.) 2018 The Goals of Language Documentation. Handbook of Endangered Languages, eD. by Kenneth Rehg and Lyle Campbell, 107-122. OxforD: OxforD University Press. (Richard A. Rhodes and Lyle Campbell.) 2018 Writing grammars of enDangereD languages. Handbook of Endangered
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