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Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives
Edited by Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga
[Typological Studies in Language 135] 2025
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Part I.Setting the stage

Introduction: State of the art of research on language isolates

Part II.Typological features of isolates vs. non-isolates

Is there a typological profile of isolates?
The Amuric language family: Why so exotic?
An Austronesian-type voice system in an Amazonian isolate

Part III.Recovering the histories of isolates

Etymologies in a language isolate: Methodological aspects and a proposal to evaluate their quality
The Small Bang: A pilot study investigating the origins of a language and population isolate through loan words
Combining disparate lines of evidence in the study of the history of language isolates, exemplified with Mochica from Northern Peru
The Múra doculects and Múra-Pirahã historical linguistics

Part IV.Isolates and language contact

Baroque accretions and isolation: A case study of grammatical complexity in complex social situations in Solomon Islands
California isolates: Language contact and genetic classification

Part V.Isolates and language documentation and classification

One language or two? The arbitrariness of isolate classifications in New Guinea
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