Lyle Campbell, Dr.
Professor, Linguistics
Professor, Latin American Studies Program
Director, Center for American Indian Languages
Linguistics
Languages & Communication Bldg
255 S Central Campus Dr Rm 2300
Salt Lake City, Ut 84112-0492
Office: 2311 LNCO
Office Phone: 581-3441
Email:
>> Curriculum Vitae
Degrees:
1971 PhD UCLA
1967 MA Linguistics University of Washington
1966 BA Archaeology & Anthropology
Lyle Campbell (Director, Center for American Indian Languages) has been professor at U of Missouri, SUNY Albany, LSU, U of Canterbury (New Zealand), visiting professor at Australian National U, Colegio de México, Memorial U (Canada), Ohio State, U Hamburg, U Helsinki, UNAM (Mexico), Universidad del País Vasco (Spain), U Turku (Finland), Federal U Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). He has held joint appointments in Linguistics, Anthropology, Behavioral Research, Latin American Studies, and Spanish. He has been a member of NSF Linguistics Panel, Fulbright Awards Committee, Linguistic Society of America Executive Committee, President of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, and held various other offices in professional organizations. He is on 18 editorial boards, and has published 20 books and 185 articles. He won Linguistic Society of America’s “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 include NSF (8 grants); NEH; Humboldt Stiftung (Tübingen U); SSRC; Fulbright Fellowship; ACLS; SOAS (Rausing Fund for Endangered Languages).
Research Keywords, Regions of Interest and Languages:
Keywords:
American Indian languages (4); endangered languages; Historical Linguistics (5); Sociolinguistics (9); typology (3); Uralic (Finno-Ugric)
Regions:
Argentina (3); Central America (10); South America (27); Guatemala (4); Finland; Latin America (15); Mexico (20)
Languages:
Finnish (2); German (111); Maori; Nahuatl (2); Portuguese (26); Quechua; Spanish (182)
Research Projects
Chaco language documentation [details]
Mesoamerican Language documentation [details]
Courses I Teach
LING 4130 Intro Historical Ling
LING 5043 Languange Maintenance & Revitalization
LING 5200 Structure Selected Lang
LING 5210 Field Methods
LING 5981 Special Topics
LING 6043 Language Maintenance & Revitalization
LING 6080 Sem-General Linguistics
LING 6130 Historical Linguistics
LING 6200 Ling of a Select Lang
LING 6210 Field Methods
Awards
2006
Presidential Professorship - University of Utah
2001
University of Canterbury Research Medal - University of Canterbury, New Zealand
1999
Leonord Bloomfield Book Award (twice) - Linguistic Society of America
1997
Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand - Royal Society of New Zealand
1980
Humboldt Stiftung - Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
(Scholastic excellence)
Favorite Music:
Andean