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Greenberg, Joseph H. was born on May 28, 1915 in Brooklyn. Son of Jacob and Florence (Pilzer) Greenberg.
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The essays of this collection are intended as separate treatments of a number of topics in linguistics. They fall quite naturally into three groups, the first two being concerned with the methodology of language description, the third and fourth with historical linguistics, and the remaining four with the relation between language and culture . . .
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This book collects Joseph Greenberg's most important writings on the genetic classification of the world's languages. Fifty years ago Joseph Greenberg put forward the now widely accepted classification of African languages. This book charts the progress of his subsequent work on language classification in Oceania, the Americas, and Eurasia,in which he proposed the language families Indo-Pacific, Amerind and Eurasiatic. It shows how he established and deployed three fundamental principles: that the most reliable evidence for genetic classification is the pairing of sound and meaning; that nonlinguistic evidence, such as skin colour or cultural traits, should be excluded from the analysis; and that the vocabulary and inflections of a very large number of languages should be simultaneously compared.The volume includes Joseph Greenberg's substantive contributions to the debate his work provoked and concludes with his writings on the links between genetic linguistics and human history. William Croft's introduction focuses on the substance and the development of Professor Greenberg's thought and research within the context of the discussion they stimulated. He also includes a bibliography of scholarly reactions to and developments of Joseph Greenberg's work and a comprehensive bibliography of his publications in books and journals.
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The basic thesis of this two-volume work (Volume I. Grammar was published in 2000) is that the well known and extensively studied Indo-European family of languages is but a branch of a much larger Eurasiatic family that extends from Europe across northern Asia to North America. Eurasiatic is seen to consist of Indo-European, Uralic-Yukaghir, Altaic (Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungus-Manchu), Japanese-Korean-Ainu (possibly a distinct subgroup of Eurasiatic), Gilyak, Chukotian, and Eskimo-Aleut. The author asserts that the evidence presented in the two volumes for the validity of Eurasiatic as a single linguistic family confirms his hypothesis since the numerous and interlocking resemblances he finds among the various subgroups can only reasonably be explained by descent from a common ancestor. The present volume provides lexical evidence for the validity of Eurasiatic as a linguistic stock. Since some of the relevant etymological material has already been published in the work of some Nostraticists, this volume emphasizes those etymologies involving Ainu, Gilyak, Chukotian, and Eskimo-Aleut, languages generally omitted from Nostratic studies. The Eurasiatic family is itself most closely related to the Amerind family, with which it shares numerous roots. The Eurasiatic-Amerind family represents a relatively recent expansion (circa 15,000 BP) into territory opened up by the melting of the Arctic ice cap. Eurasiatic-Amerind stands apart from the other families of the Old World, among which the differences are much greater and represent deeper chronological groupings. The volume includes a classification of Eurasiatic languages, references cited, and semantic and phonetic indexes.
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This book is concerned primarily with the evidence for the validity of a genetic unit, Amerind, embracing the vast majority of New World languages. The only languages excluded are those belonging to the Na-Dene and Eskimo- Aleut families. It examines the now widely held view that Haida, the most distant language genetically, is not to be included in Na-Dene. It confined itself to Sapir's data, although the evidence could have been buttressed considerably by the use of more recent materials. What survives is a body of evidence superior to that which could be adduced under similar restrictions for the affinity of Albanian, Celtic, and Armenian, all three universally recognized as valid members of the Indo-European family of languages. A considerable number of historical hypotheses emerge from the present and the forthcoming volumes. Of these, the most fundamental bears on the question of the peopling of the Americas. If the results presented in this volume and in the companion volume on Eurasiatic are valid, the classification of the world's languages based on genetic criteria undergoes considerable simplification.
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Greenberg, Joseph H. was born on May 28, 1915 in Brooklyn. Son of Jacob and Florence (Pilzer) Greenberg.
AB, Columbia, 1936; Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, Northwestern University, 1940; Doctor of Science (honorary), Northwestern University, 1982.
Faculty, University of Minnesota, 1946-1948;
assistant professor, Columbia, 1948-1953;
associate professor, Columbia, 1953-1957;
professor anthropology, Columbia, 1957-1962;
professor, Stanford, 1962-1985;
Ray Lyman Wilbur professor social science in anthropology, Stanford, 1971;
director, National Defense Education Act. African Language and Area Center, 1967-1978. Visiting professor Summer Linguistic Institute, Michigan U., 1957, University of Minnesota, 1960.
Member panel anthropology and philosophy and history of science National Science Foundation, 1959-1961. Visiting professor summer institute U. Colorado, 1961. Director West African Langs.
Survey, 1959-1966; Linguistic Society American professor Summer Linguistic Institute, Oswego, New York, 1976. Collitz professor Summer Linguistic Institute, Stanford, 1987, coordinator Stanford Project on Language Universals.
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Served with Signal Intelligence Corporation Army of the United States, 1940-1945. Member American Anthropological Association (representative to governor board International Institute since 1955, 1st distinguished lecturer 1970), Linguistic Society of America (executive committee 1953-1955, vice president 1976, president 1977), West African Linguistics Society (chairman 1965-1966), African Studies Association (executive committee, also committee on languages and linguistics since 1959, president 1964-1965), National Academy of Sciences, American Academy Arts and Sciences (Talcott Parsons prize for social science 1997), American Philosophical Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Selma Berkowitz, November 23, 1940.