Lyle CampbellDept of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i Manoa569 Moore Hall, 1890 East-West RoadHonolulu, HI 96822 USAOffice tel. 808-956-3242, Dept 808-956-8602; Fax: 808-956-9166lylecamp at hawai’i dot edu

[Photo]

Bio-blurb: [clickable?]Lyle Campbell (PhD UCLA) has held positions at the U of Missouri, SUNY Albany,

LSU, U of Canterbury (New Zealand), and as presidential professor of Linguistics and director of the Center for American Indian Languages (CAIL) at U of Utah; he has been visiting professor at Australian National U, Colegio de México, Memorial U (Canada), Ohio State U (Assoc. Director of Linguistics Institute), U of Hamburg, U of Helsinki, UNAM (Mexico), Universidad del País Vasco (Spain), U of Turku (Finland), and Federal U of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). He has held joint appointments in Linguistics, Anthropology, Behavioral Research, Latin American Studies, and Spanish (with stints as head/chair of Linguistics and Spanish). He has been a member of the NSF Linguistics Panel, Fulbright Scholar Awards Committee, Linguistic Society of America Executive Committee, president of the Society for the

Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA), and has held offices in various other professional organizations. He is on 18 editorial boards, and has published 20 books and c.200 articles. He won the Linguistic Society of America’s prestigious “Leonard Bloomfield Book Award” twice, for Historical Syntax in Cross-linguistics Perspective (Alice Harris & L. Campbell, 1995, Cambridge U Press), and American Indian Languages: the Historical Linguistics of Native America (1997, Oxford U Press). His grants and awards include, among others, NSF (8 grants); NEH; Humboldt Stiftung Fellowship; Social Science Research Council; Fulbright Fellowship; American Council of Learned Societies; SOAS (Hans Rausing Fund for Endangered Languages); Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden (3 grants); U of Canterbury Research Medal; and Presidential Professor U of Utah. His current projects include documentation of several Latin American languages and a Catalogue of Endangered Languages of the world. His specializations are: documentation of endangered languages, historical linguistics, Native American languages, typology, sociolinguistics, and Uralic. He is a native of Oregon; his non-academic interests include hiking, kayaking, snorkelling and SCUBA, and mountain biking.

Principal Research and Teaching InterestsDocumentation of endangered languagesHistorical linguisticsAmerican Indian languages, Indigenous Languages of Latin AmericaTypologySociolinguisticsUralic

Some Current Research ProjectsCatalogue of Endangered Languages (with Helen Dry-Aristar and Anthony

Aristar)Preparation of third edition of Historical Linguistics: an Introduction. (Edinburgh

University Press, MIT Press)Ninam (Yanamaman language, Brazil): Dictionary [NSF support]Nivaclé (Matacoan language, Argentina and Paraguay): grammar and dictionary

(a practical version for community members and a more technical version for academics of both) [ELDP support]

Wichí (Matacoan language, Argentina): grammar and dictionary (a practical version for community members and a more technical version for academics of both) (with Verónica Grondona) [NSF and ELDP support]

Language conservation and revitalization of Chorote, Nivaclé, and Wichí, in Misión La Paz, Salta Province, Argentina (with Verónica Grondona) [ELDP support]

Xinkan project: grammar and dictionary of three Xinkan languages (Guatemala) (with Terrence Kaufman, Chris Rogers, Naomi Palosaari) [NSF support]

A Few Publications (last 5 years) [[clickable?]]Books:

2008 Language classification: history and method (Lyle Campbell and William J. Poser). Cambridge: Cambridge U Press.

2007 Glossary of historical linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh U Press; Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. (L. 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 L. Campbell, eds.)

Articles:2011 Structural Aspects of Language Endangerment. The Cambridge Handbook

of Endangered Languages, ed. by Peter K. Austin and Julia Sallabank, 100-19. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Naomi Palosaari and L. Campbell.)

2010 Who speaks what to whom?: Multilingualism and language choice in Misión La Paz – a unique case. Language in Society 39.1-30. (L. Campbell and Verónica Grondona.)

2010 Endangered Languages of the United States. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger of Disappearing (2nd Edition), ed. by Christopher Moseley, 108-13. Paris, France: UNESCO. (Christopher Rogers, Naomi Palosaari, and L. Campbell.)

2008 What can we learn about the earliest human language by comparing languages known today? Origins and Evolution of Language: approaches, models, paradigms, ed. by Bernard Laks, with Serge Cleuziou, Jean-Paul Demoule, and Pierre Encrevé, 79-111. London: Equinox.

2008 North America. Atlas of the world’s languages, ed. by Chris Moseley and Ron Asher, 7-41. London: Routledge. [Victor Golla, Ives Goddard, Lyle Campbell, Marianne Mithun, Mauricio Mixco].

2007 Why Sir William Jones got it all wrong, or Jones’ role in how to establish language families. Studies in Basque and Historical Linguistics in Memory of R.L. Trask, ed. by Joseba Lakarra and José Ignacio Hualde, 245-64. Bilbao: Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea.

2007 Internal reconstruction in Chulupí (Nivaclé). Diachronica 24.1-29. (L. Campbell and Verónica Grondona.)

2006 Areal linguistics: a closer scrutiny. Linguistic Areas: Convergence in Historical and Typological Perspective, ed. by Yaron Matras April McMahon, and Nigel Vincent, 1-31. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.

2006 The USA [Sociolinguistics in the USA]. Sociolinguistics: an international Handbook of the science of language and society (2nd edition), ed. by Ulrich Ammon, Norbert Dittmar, Klaus J. Matteier, and Peter Trudgill, 2052-66. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2006 Long-range comparison: methodological disputes. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd edition), ed. By Keith Brown, 7.324-31. Oxford: Elsevier.

2006 Areal linguistics. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd edition), ed. By Keith Brown, 1.455-60. Oxford: Elsevier.

Review Article:2008 Review of Ethnologue: languages of the world, ed. by Raymond G. Gordon, Jr.

Language 84.636-41. (L. Campbell and Verónica Grondona).

Other:Wikipedia entry on Lyle Campbell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyle_Campbell