Lyle Campbell

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Lyle Campbell is a linguist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the director of the university's Center for American Indian Languages (CAIL). He is considered to be one of the foremost experts on Native American languages, especially Mayan and Uto-Aztecan languages, and historical linguistics. He was formerly head of the linguistics department at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand. 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; & Mithun, Marianne (Eds.). (1979). The languages of native America: Historical and comparative assessment. Austin: University of Texas Press.
• Campbell (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
• Campbell (1998). Historical Linguistics: An Introduction. Edinburgh University Press.