Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society - Berkeley Linguistics Society Inc, 2016, Berkeley, California, USA. — p. 16-32Introduction (What is a language isolate?)
Why language isolates and language families are not so very different
Further clarification of the concept ‘language isolate’
How many language isolates are there, really?
How can we advance our knowledge of the history of language isolates?:
Internal reconstruction
Philological investigation of attestations
Comparative reconstruction
Loanwords
Areal linguistic traits
Wörter und Sachen
What can we predict about the possible discovery of genetic relationships for some of these language isolates?
Conclusions
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