Campbell Lyle (ed.) Language Isolates

Routledge, 2018. — xiv + 378 p. — (Routledge Language Family Series). — ISBN 978-1-138-82105-7.Language Isolates explores this fascinating group of languages that surprisingly comprise a third of the language families (linguistic lineages) of the world.
Individual chapters written by experts on these languages examine the world’s major language isolates by geographic regions, with up-to-date descriptions of many, including previously unrecognized language isolates. Each language isolate represents a unique lineage and a unique window on what is possible in human language, making this an essential volume for anyone interested in understanding the diversity of languages and the very nature of human language.
Language Isolates is key reading for professionals and students in linguistics and anthropology.Introduction (Lyle Campbell).
Language Isolates and Their History (Lyle Campbell).
Ancient Near Eastern and European Isolates (Piotr Michalowski).
Basque and the Reconstruction of Isolated Languages (Joseba A. Lakarra).
Ainu (Thomas Dougherty).
Burushaski (Alexander D. Smith).
Other isolated Languages of Asia (Stefan Georg).
African Language Isolates (Roger Blench).
Language Isolates of North America (Marianne Mithun).
Language Isolates of Mesoamerica and Northern Mexico (Raina Heaton).
Language Isolates in South America (Frank Seifart and Harald Hammarström).
Language Isolates in the New Guinea region (Harald Hammarström).
Language Isolates of Australia (Claire Bowern).
Endangerment of Language Isolates (Eve Okura).