GEORGE, S., ED.: LANGUAGE ISOLATES, 4 VOLUME SET
VOLUME I Part 1: Isolated Languages of Europe 1.1 Basque 1. R. L. Trask, ‘A Thumbnail Sketch of the Language’, The History of Basque (Routledge, 1997), pp. 82 123. 2. R. L. Trask, ‘Origins and Relatives of the Basque Language: Review of the Evidence’, in J. I. Hualde, J. A. Lakarra, and R. L. Trask (eds.), Towards a History of the Basque Language (John Benjamins, 1995), pp. 65 99. 3. Luis Michelena, ‘The Latin and Romance Element in Basque’, in J. I. Hualde, J. A. Lakarra, and R. L. Trask (eds.), Towards a History of the Basque Language (John Benjamins, 1995), pp. 137 69. 1.2 Etruscan 4. Helmut Rix, ‘Etruscan’, in R. D. Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 943 66.
Part 2: Isolated Languages of the Ancient Near East 2.1 Sumerian 5. I. M. Diakonoff, ‘Ancient Writing and Ancient Written Language: Pitfalls and Peculiarities in the Study of Sumerian’, in St. J. Lieberman (ed.), Sumerological Studies in Honor of Thorkild Jacobsen on His Seventieth Birthday, June 7, 1974 (University of Chicago Press, 1975), pp. 99 121. 6. Piotr Michalowski, ‘The Lives of the Sumerian Language’, in Seth L. Sanders (ed.), Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures (University of Chicago Press, 2006), pp. 163 88. 7. Miguel Civil, ‘The Sumerian Writing Systems: Some Problems’, Orientalia Nova Series, 1973, 42, 21 34. 8. Gonzalo Rubio, ‘Sumerian Morphology’, in A. S. Kaye (ed.), Morphologies of Asia and Africa, Vol. 2 (Eisenbrauns, 2007), pp. 1327 79. 9. Piotr Michalowski, ‘Sumerian as an Ergative Language, I’, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 1980, 82, 86 103. 10. Gonzalo Rubio, ‘On the Alleged "Pre Sumerian Substratum"’, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 1999, 51, 1 16. 2.2 Hattic 11. J. Klinger, ‘Hattisch’, in M. P. Streck (ed.), Sprachen des alten Orients (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2007), pp. 128 34. 12. Petra Goedegebuure, ‘The Alignment of Hattian: An Active Language with an Ergative Base’, Babel und Bibel, 2007 8, 4 5, 949 81. 2.3 Elamite 13. Matthew W. Stolper, ‘Elamite’, in R. D. Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 60 94. VOLUME II 2.4 Hurrian and Urartean 14. Gernot Wilhelm, ‘Hurrian, in R. D. Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 95 118. 15. Gernot Wilhelm, ‘Urartian’, in R. D. Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 119 37. 16. Gernot Wilhelm, ‘Suffixaufnahme in Hurrian and Urartian’, in Frans Plank (ed.), Double Case: Agreement by Suffixaufnahme (Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 113 35.
Part 3: Isolated Languages of South Asia 3.1 Burushaski 17. John Biddulph, ‘Boorishki (Nager Dialect)’, in J. Biddulph, Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1880), pp. ii xxxix. 18. Philip Lemont Barbour, ‘Buruçaskī: A Language of Northern Kashmir’, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1921, 41, 60 72. 19. Peter C. Backstrom, ‘Burushaski’, in P. C. Backstrom and C. F. Radloff (eds.), Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, Vol. 2 (National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid i Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan/Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1992), pp. 31 54. 20. Gregory D. S. Anderson, ‘Burushaski Morphology’, in A. S. Kaye (ed.), Morphologies of Asia and Africa, Vol. 2 (Eisenbrauns, 2007), pp. 1233 75. 3.2 Kusunda 21. Johan Reinhard, ‘The Ban Rajas: A Vanishing Himalayan Tribe’, Contributions to Nepalese Studies, 1976, 4/1, 1 22. 22. David E. Watters, ‘Kusunda: A Typological Isolate in South Asia’, in Y. Yadava et al. (eds.), Contemporary Issues in Nepalese Linguistics (Kathmandu: Linguistic Society of Nepal, 2005), pp. 375 96. 23. Madhav P. Pokharel, ‘Strategies of Pronominalization in Kusunda’, in Y. Yadava et al. (eds.), Contemporary Issues in Nepalese Linguistics (Kathmandu: Linguistic Society of Nepal, 2005), pp. 189 92. 3.3 Nihali 24. Robert Shafer, ‘Nahālī. A Linguistic Study in Paleoethnography’, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 1940, 5, 346 71. 25. Norman H. Zide, ‘On Nihali’, in Gregory D. S. Anderson (ed.), The Munda Languages (Routledge, 2007), pp. 764 76. 3.4 Andamanese 26. Anvita Abbi, ‘Is Great Andamanese Genealogically and Typologically Distinct from Onge and Jarawa?’, Language Sciences, 2009, 31, 791 812. 27. Yogendra Yadav, ‘Great Andamanese: A Preliminary Study’, in D. Bradley (ed.), Papers in South East Asian Linguistics (Pacific Linguistics, 1985), pp. 185 214. Part 4: Isolated Languages of North Asia 4.1 Palaeosiberian 28. Roman Jakobson, ‘The Paleosiberian Languages’, American Anthropologist, New Series, 1942, 44, 4, 1, 602 20. 4.2 Ket and Yeniseian 29. Stefan Georg, ‘The Gradual Disappearance of a Eurasian Language Family: The Case of Yeniseian’, in M. Janse and S. Tol (eds.), Language Death and Language Maintenance: Theoretical, Practical and Descriptive Approaches (John Benjamins, 2003), pp. 89 106. 30. Edward Vajda, ‘The Kets and their Language’, Mother Tongue, 1998, IV, 4 16. 31. James Byrne, ‘Middle Yenisseian and Kottian’, General Principles of the Structure of Language, Vol. I (Trübner, 1885), pp. 466 72. 32. Edward Vajda, ‘The Role of Position Class in Ket Verb Morphophonology’, Word, 2001, 52, 3, 369 436. 33. Stefan Georg, ‘Yeniseic Languages and the Siberian Linguistic Area’, in A. Lubotsky, J. Schaeken, and J. Wiedenhof (eds.), Evidence and Counter Evidence: Essays in Honour of Frederik Kortlandt, Vol. 2 (Rodopi, 2008), pp. 151 68
VOLUME III 4.3 Yukaghir 34. Nikolai Vakhtin, ‘The Yukaghir Language in Sociolinguistic Perspective’, Linguistic and Oriental Studies from Poznań, 1992, 1, 47 82. 35. Elena Maslova, ‘Yukagir Focus in A Typological Perspective’, Journal of Pragmatics, 1997, 27, 457 75. 36. Mark Schmalz, ‘Towards a Full Description of the Focus System in Tundra Yukaghir’, Linguistic Discovery, 2012, 10, 2, 53 108. 37. Irina Nikolaeva, ‘Chuvan and Omok Languages?’, in A. Lubotsky, J. Schaeken, and J. Wiedenhof (eds.), Evidence and Counter Evidence: Essays in Honour of Frederik Kortlandt, Vol. 2 (Rodopi, 2008), pp. 313 36. 4.4 Nivkh 38. P. G. von Moellendorff, ‘The Ghilyak Language’, China Review, 1894, XXI, 141 6. 39. Robert Austerlitz, ‘Gilyak Internal Reconstruction, 1: Seven Etyma, Folia Slavica 5/1 3’, Papers from the Second Conference on the Non Slavic Languages of the USSR, Columbus (Slavica, 1982), pp. 81 8. 40. Robert Austerlitz, ‘Gilyak Internal Reconstruction, 2: Iron and Questions Related to Metallurgy, Folia Slavica 7/1 2’, Papers from the Third Conference on the Non Slavic Languages of the USSR, Columbus (Slavica, 1984), pp. 39 48. 41. Robert Austerlitz, ‘Gilyak Internal Reconstruction, 3: Ligneous Matter’, in H. I. Aronson (ed.), Non Slavic Languages of the USSR: Papers from the Fourth Conference (Slavica, 1994), pp. 229 33. 4.5 Ainu 42. Anna Bugaeva, ‘Southern Hokkaido Ainu’, in N. Tranter (ed.), The Languages of Japan and Korea (Routledge, 2012), pp. 461 508. Part 5: Isolated Languages of Africa 5.1 Jalaa 43. Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer, ‘Jalaa—An Almost Forgotten Language of Northeastern Nigeria: A Language Isolate?’, in D. Nurse (ed.), Historical Language Contact in Africa (Rüdiger Köppe, 2001), pp. 239 71. 5.2 Shabo 44. Christopher Ehret, ‘Do Krongo and Shabo Belong in Nilo Saharan?’, in Robert Nicolaï and Franz Rottland, Actes Cinquième Colloque de Linguistique Nilo Saharienne/Fifth Nilo Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, Nice, 24 29 août 1992, Actes/Proceedings (Köppe, 1993), pp. 169 93. 45. Anbessa Teferra, ‘A Sketch of Shabo Grammar’, in M. Lionel Bender (ed.), Proceedings of the Nilo Saharan Linguistics Colloquium (4th, Bayreuth, West Germany, August 30 September 2, 1989) (Helmut Buske, 1991), pp. 371 87. 5.3 Ongota 46. Graziano Savà, ‘Ongota (Birale), A Moribund Language of Southwest Ethiopia’, in M. Janse and S. Tol, Language Death and Language Maintenance: Theoretical, Historical, and Descriptive Approaches (Benjamins, 2003), pp. 171 87. 5.4 Hadza 47. Bonny Sands, ‘The Linguistic Relationship Between Hadza and Khoisan’, in Mathias Schladt (ed.), Language, Identity, and Conceptualization Among the Khoisan (Köppe, 1998), pp. 265 83.
Part 6: Isolated Language in the Americas 6.1 Kutenai 48. Matthew S. Dryer, ‘Grammatical Relations in Ktunaxa (Kutenai)’ (The Belcourt Lecture delivered before the University of Manitoba on 24 February 1995). 6.2 Esselen 49. David Leedom Shaul, ‘The Huelel (Esselen) Language’, IJAL, 1995, 61, 2, 191 239.
VOLUME IV 6.3 Washo 50. A. L. Kroeber, ‘The Washo Language of East Central California and Nevada’, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, 1907, 4, 5, 249 317. 6.4 Yuchi 51. James M. Crawford, ‘Timucua and Yuchi: Two Language Isolates of the Southeast’, in L. Campbell and M. Mithun, The Languages of Native America: Historical and Comparative Assessment (University of Texas Press, 1979), pp. 327 54. 6.5 Zuni 52. Willard Walker, ‘What Zuni is Really Like’, in Frederick B. Agard and Gerald Kelley (eds.), Essays in Honor of Charles F. Hockett (E. J. Brill, 1983), pp. 551 62. 6.6 Tonkawa 53. Harry Hoijer, ‘Tonkawa’, in H. Hoijer et al. (eds.), Linguistic Structures of Native America (The Viking Fund, 1946), pp. 289 311. 54. Dell Hymes, ‘Interpretation of a Tonkawa Paradigm’, in D. Hymes (ed.), Studies in Southwestern Ethnolinguistics: Meaning and History in the Languages of the American Southwest (Mouton, 1967), pp. 264 78. 6.7 Chitimacha 55. Morris Swadesh, ‘Chitimacha’, in H. Hoijer et al. (eds.), Linguistic Structures of Native America (The Viking Fund, 1946), pp. 312 36. 6.8 Tunica 56. Mary Haas, ‘A Grammatical Sketch of Tunica’, in H. Hoijer et al. (eds.), Linguistic Structures of Native America (The Viking Fund, 1946), pp. 337 66. 6.9 Coahuilteco 57. Rudolph C. Troike, ‘Sketch of Coahuilteco: A Language Isolate of Texas’, in William C. Sturtevant (ed.), Handbook of North American Indians (Smithsonian Institution, 1996), Vol. 17 (‘Languages’, ed. William C. Sturtevant), pp. 644 65. 6.10 Seri 58. Stephen A. Marlett, ‘A Typological Overview of the Seri Language’, Linguistic Discovery, 2005, 3, 1, 54 73. 6.11 Huave 59. P. H. Matthews, ‘Huave Verb Morphology: Some Comments from a Non Tagmemic Viewpoint’, IJAL, 1972, 38, 2, 96 118.
Part 7: Isolated Languages of Australia and the Pacific Region 7.1 Isolates of New Guinea 60. Malcolm Ross, ‘Pronouns as a Preliminary Diagnostic for Grouping Papuan Languages’, in A. Pawley et al. (eds.), Papuan Pasts: Cultural, Linguistic and Biological Histories of Papuan Speaking Peoples (Pacific Linguistics, 2005), pp. 15 65. 7.2 Tasmanian 61. Terry Crowley and R. M. W. Dixon, ‘Tasmanian’, in R. M. W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake, Handbook of Australian Languages, Vol. 2 (Benjamins, 1981), pp. 395 421.
Part 8: Epilogue 62. Larry Trask, ‘Why Should a Language Have Any Relatives?’, in C. Renfrew and D. Nettle (eds.), Nostratic: Examining a Linguistic Macrofamily (The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 1999), pp. 157 76.