American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)
"Campbell's book can serve both as our manifesto and as our textbook."--Language in Society"This is an excellent book, an extraordinarily useful volume for anyone whose work and interests involve languages of the Americas or, more generally, the methods and results of historical linguistics....This is a true and thoroughly authoritative handbook."--Mother Tongue"It's the kind of book I wish had been available when I was a student and would have saved me many long hours and fruitless searches in libraries....It will be used for a long time to come and well after the furor about Greenberg has died down."--Margaret Langdon,University of California, SanDiego"A wealth of useful information is provided....The author has compiled and sifted information from a vast area of scholarship, making this as complete and up-to-date a guide to this subject as one could wish."--Choice