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Lyle Campbell Dept of
Linguistics, University of Hawai'i Manoa 569 Moore Hall, 1890
East-West Road Honolulu, HI 96822 USA Office tel. 808-956-3242,
Dept 808-956-8602; Fax: 808-956-9166 |
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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�fs
prestigious �gLeonard Bloomfield Book Award�h
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 Interests Documentation of
endangered languages Historical linguistics American Indian
languages, Indigenous Languages of Latin America Typology Sociolinguistics Uralic Some Current Research Projects Catalogue 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] Wikipedia entry on Lyle Campbell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyle_Campbell |