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Raised in Oregon, Campbell received his B.A. in Archaeology and Anthropology in 1966, his M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Washington in 1967, and his Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCLA in 1971.
Campbell taught at the University of Missouri (1971-1974), the State University of New York at Albany (1974-1989),
Louisiana State University (1989-1994), and the University Of Canterbury , in Christchurch , New Zealand (1994-2004). He is presently Professor of Linguistics at the University Of Utah in Salt Lake City , Utah , and the director of the university's Center for American Indian Languages (CAIL).

Among the topics on which Campbell is an expert is the history of historical linguistics and its methodology. He is a prominent critic of extreme claims of genetic affiliation of languages such as those of Merritt Ruhlen and Joseph Greenberg .

He is the author of fifteen books, two of which (''American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America'' and ''Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspectives'', co-written with Alice C. Harris) were awarded the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award by the Linguistic Society Of America for the best book in linguistics published in the previous two years.


PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Campbell, Lyle & Marianne Mithun (Eds.) (1979). ''The Languages of Native America: Historical and Comparative Assessment''. Austin: University of Texas Press.

  • Campbell, Lyle (1997). ''American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America''. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.

  • ——— (1998). ''Historical Linguistics: An Introduction'' (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.



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