Lyle Campbell

Lyle Richard Campbell (born October 22, 1942 in Oregon ) is an American linguist . His main focus is on historical linguistics and the indigenous American languages , especially those of Central America . The Finno-Ugric Studies also part of his research. He is currently Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa .

Life

Campbell grew up in Oregon. He did his BA in archeology and anthropology in 1966 , but then stated that he wanted to do something that was important and from which people could benefit; accordingly, a year later he did an MA in historical linguistics at the University of Washington . His master's thesis dealt with Finnish phonology . In 1971 he did his Ph.D. at UCLA . He mainly worked on the documentation of various Latin American languages and their linguistic investigation. Many of these indigenous languages are threatened with extinction, such as the Nawat (Pipil) and the Potón (Lenca) in El Salvador. In his dissertation he examined the eight dialects of the Quiché language , which is still the most widely spoken Mayan language in Guatemala today.

Campbell has already taught at the following universities:

• 1971-1974: University of Missouri
• 1974–1989: State University of New York at Albany
• 1989-1994: Louisiana State University
• 1994–2004: University of Canterbury , Christchurch / New Zealand
• 2004–2010: University of Utah

Since the end of 2010 he has been working at the University of Hawaii at Manoa .

Campbell has also given guest lectures at many universities, including Hamburg , Mexico and Helsinki .

In 1998 and 2000 he received the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award from the Linguistic Society of America .

literature

In addition to over 200 articles, Lyle Campbell is the author of the following books:

• Lyle Campbell, Robert Blair et al .: Cakchiquel Basic Course. Peace Corps, Provo 1971.
• Lyle Campbell: Quichean Linguistic Prehistory. University of California Press, Berkeley 1977. (University of California Publications in Linguistics, 81)
• Lyle Campbell et al .: Bibliography of Mayan Languages ​​and Linguistics. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, Publication 3. SUNY Albany 1978.
• Lyle Campbell, Marianne Mithun: The Languages ​​of Native America: An Historical and Comparative Assessment. University of Texas Press, Austin 1979.
• Lyle Campbell: El Idioma Cacaopera. (Colección Antropología e Historia, 16.) Administración del patrimonio cultural. Ministerio de Educación, Dirección de publicaciones, San Salvador, El Salvador 1980.
• Lyle Campbell, John Justeson: Phoneticism in Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing. University of Texas Press, SUNY Albany 1984. (Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, Pub. 9.)
• Lyle Campbell et al .: The Foreign Impact of Lowland Mayan Languages ​​and Script. Tulane University, New Orleans 1985. (Middle American Research Institute, publication 53.)
• Lyle Campbell: The Pipil language of El Salvador. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin 1985.
• Lyle Campbell: The Linguistics of Southeast Chiapas. Utah, Provo 1988. (Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation, 51.)
• Lyle Campbell, E. Migliazza: Panorama General de las Lenguas Indígenas en las Amerícas. Historia General de América, tomo 10. Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia. Caracas, Venezuela 1988.
• Lyle Campbell, Alice C. Harris: Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995.
• Lyle Campbell, PJ Mistry, Jane Hill: The Life of Language: Papers in Linguistics in Honor of William Bright. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin 1997.
• Lyle Campbell: American Indian languages: the historical linguistics of Native America. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1997, ISBN 0-19-509427-1 . Digitized
• Lyle Campbell: Historical Linguistics: an Introduction. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1998.
• Lyle Campbell: Historical Linguistics: an Introduction. MIT Press, Cambridge MA 1999. (American rights edition of 1998 Edinburgh University Press book.)
• Lyle Campbell: Grammaticalization: a critical assessment. Special issue of Language Sciences, vol. 23, numbers 2-3. 2003.
• Lyle Campbell et al .: New Zealand English: its Origins and Evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004.
• Lyle Campbell: Historical Linguistics: an Introduction. 2nd edition. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2004. (and: MIT Press., Cambridge, MA 2004)
• Lyle Campbell, William J. Poser: Language Classification: History and Method. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-88005-3 .

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Lyle Campbell, University of Utah at: linguistlist.org
2. ^ Leonard Bloomfield Book Award. ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.