Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives
Edited by Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga
[Typological Studies in Language, 135] 2025. vii, 333 pp. + index
Ekaitz Santazilia
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ekaitz Santazilia plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Linguistics of isolated languages | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2025 Introduction: State of the art of research on language isolates Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives, Salaberri, Iker, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga (eds.), pp. 2–19 | Chapter
This paper discusses the issues faced by linguists analyzing language isolates, namely their definition, recovering their histories, and commonly used methods that implicitly rely on non-isolate status. This is followed by a critical review of recent approaches meant to overcome these issues. We… read more
2020 The two faces of animacy Studies in Language 44:4, pp. 812–830 | Article
As pointed out by Corbett (2006, 2012), animacy manifests itself in the grammar of languages in two ways: as a feature and as a condition for the realization of other features. In this work I explore this dual behavior by adding further crosslinguistic evidence. I provide examples affecting… read more