Nivaclé Grammar

Lyle Campbell is emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He has published more than 200 articles and 22 books, including American Indian Languages and Historical Syntax in Cross-linguistics Perspective, which both received the Linguistic Society of America’s Leonard Bloomfield Book Award.

“This book contains the most detailed and informative descriptive study of the Nivaclé language so far and the only one to be found in English. It stands out by its richness of data, its high standards of analysis and presentation, and its exhaustive character. Logically constructed and well organized, it contains all the language data and analysis one could hope for without indulging in unnecessary digressions. The book is well written and reader friendly."— Willem Adelaar, professor emeritus of Native American Languages, Leiden University“This is a great contribution to the literature on Matacoan languages. It completes other work on the language and offers new insights and analyses. It is clearly written and the choice of the orthography of Nivaclé makes it easy to read.”—Jimena Terraza, professor of linguistics, Kiuna College“The most detailed description of any language of the Gran Chaco. A reference grammar such as this one will be useful to anthropologists, ethnographers, ethnohistorians, typological linguists, and indigenous people who want to write teaching materials or teach classes on their languages. It is a groundbreaking contribution.”—Willem J. de Reuse, linguist for The Language Conservancy