American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America
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American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America is a comprehensive scholarly work that surveys, classifies, and analyzes the indigenous languages of the Americas from a historical-comparative perspective.
All labels observed (1)
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| American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America canonical | 3 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America Context triple: [Lyle Campbell, notableWork, American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America]
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A.
The Languages of Native North America
The Languages of Native North America is a comprehensive linguistic survey by Marianne Mithun that analyzes the structures, histories, and typological diversity of Indigenous languages across North America.
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B.
Handbook of American Indian Languages
The *Handbook of American Indian Languages* is a foundational early 20th-century linguistic work that systematically documents and analyzes numerous Indigenous languages of the Americas.
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C.
American Indian languages
American Indian languages are the diverse indigenous languages of the Americas, encompassing numerous distinct language families and cultural traditions across North, Central, and South America.
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D.
A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia
"A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia" is a comprehensive linguistic reference work detailing the structure and usage of the Tariana language spoken in the Northwest Amazon region.
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E.
Amerind as a macro-family of the Americas
Amerind as a macro-family of the Americas is a controversial linguistic hypothesis that groups most Indigenous languages of the Americas into a single, large language family.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America Target entity description: American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America is a comprehensive scholarly work that surveys, classifies, and analyzes the indigenous languages of the Americas from a historical-comparative perspective.
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A.
The Languages of Native North America
The Languages of Native North America is a comprehensive linguistic survey by Marianne Mithun that analyzes the structures, histories, and typological diversity of Indigenous languages across North America.
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B.
Handbook of American Indian Languages
The *Handbook of American Indian Languages* is a foundational early 20th-century linguistic work that systematically documents and analyzes numerous Indigenous languages of the Americas.
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C.
American Indian languages
American Indian languages are the diverse indigenous languages of the Americas, encompassing numerous distinct language families and cultural traditions across North, Central, and South America.
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D.
A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia
"A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia" is a comprehensive linguistic reference work detailing the structure and usage of the Tariana language spoken in the Northwest Amazon region.
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E.
Amerind as a macro-family of the Americas
Amerind as a macro-family of the Americas is a controversial linguistic hypothesis that groups most Indigenous languages of the Americas into a single, large language family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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| instanceOf |
book
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linguistics monograph ⓘ scholarly work ⓘ |
| addresses |
documentation of endangered Native American languages
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problems of data quality in American Indian linguistics ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
analyze historical relationships among Native American languages
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provide a comprehensive survey of American Indian languages ⓘ |
| analyzes |
morphological change in Native American languages
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sound change in Native American languages ⓘ syntactic change in Native American languages ⓘ |
| covers |
language family classification debates in the Americas
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methodological issues in historical linguistics of the Americas ⓘ |
| critiques |
Greenberg's Amerind hypothesis
NERFINISHED
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long-range linguistic classification proposals ⓘ |
| discusses |
comparative method in American Indian linguistics
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language contact in the Americas ⓘ methods of internal reconstruction ⓘ reconstruction of proto-languages ⓘ |
| field | linguistics ⓘ |
| focusesOnRegion |
Central America
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North America NERFINISHED ⓘ South America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Lyle Campbell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
American Indian languages
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Native American languages ⓘ comparative linguistics ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ language change ⓘ language classification ⓘ language families of the Americas ⓘ |
| includes | bibliographic references on Native American linguistics ⓘ |
| isRecognizedAs | standard reference on historical linguistics of Native America ⓘ |
| isUsedAs |
reference work in linguistics
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textbook in advanced linguistics courses ⓘ |
| provides | classification of Native American language families ⓘ |
| subfield |
Native American linguistics
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historical linguistics ⓘ |
| surveys | indigenous languages of the Americas ⓘ |
| usesMethod | historical-comparative method ⓘ |
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Subject: American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America Description of subject: American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America is a comprehensive scholarly work that surveys, classifies, and analyzes the indigenous languages of the Americas from a historical-comparative perspective.
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subject surface form:
Lyle Campbell