Joseph Greenberg

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Joseph Greenberg is affiliated with the following schools: Columbia University, Yale University, Northwestern University, Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Joseph Harold Greenberg was an American linguist, known mainly for his work concerning linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages. Life Early life and education Joseph Greenberg was born on May 28, 1915, to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York. His first great interest was music. At the age of 14, he gave a piano concert in Steinway Hall. He continued to play the piano frequently throughout his life.

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Joseph Greenberg's Published Works

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Published Papers

Some Universals of Grammar with Particular Reference to the Order of Meaningful Elements (1990) (2340)
Universals of Language (1966) (835)
Universals of human language (1978) (673)
The Settlement of the Americas: A Comparison of the Linguistic, Dental, and Genetic Evidence [and Comments and Reply] (1986) (572)
Language Universals: With Special Reference to Feature Hierarchies (1966) (558)
Current trends in linguistics. (1959) (544)
Language in the Americas (1987) (542)
The Languages of Africa (1963) (381)
The Measurement of Linguistic Diversity (1956) (381)
Studies in the Psychological Correlates of the Sound System of American English (1964) (277)
A Quantitative Approach to the Morphological Typology of Language (1960) (264)
The Patterning of Root Morphemes in Semitic (1950) (257)
ANTIBIOSIS IN SKIN FLORA (1976) (173)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification (1956) (150)
Some Generalizations concerning Glottalic Consonants, Especially Implosives (1970) (133)
Essays in Linguistics (1957) (111)
LINGUISTIC ORIGINS OF NATIVE AMERICANS (1992) (105)
Language, Culture and Communication (1972) (102)
SOME GENERALIZATIONS CONCERNING INITIAL AND FINAL CONSONANT SEQUENCES (1965) (96)
Speaking of Forked Tongues: The Feasibility of Reconciling Human Phylogeny and the History of Language [and Comments] (1990) (94)
Synchronic and Diachronic Universals in Phonology (1966) (89)
Indo-European and its closest relatives : the Eurasiatic language family (2000) (83)
Language typology : a historical and analytic overview (1974) (79)
Linguistic evidence regarding Bantu origins (1972) (79)
The last stages of grammatical elements; contractive and expansive desemanticization (1991) (76)
Numeral Classifiers and Substantival Number: Problems in the Genesis of a Linguistic Type. Working Papers on Language Universals, No. 9. (1972) (71)
The General Classification of Central and South American Languages (1960) (67)
The Influence Of Islam On A Sudanese Religion (1948) (66)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification: VI. The Click Languages (1950) (58)
Linguistic Evidence for the Influence of the kanuri on the Hausa (1960) (57)
Islam and Clan Organization among the Hausa (1947) (56)
Some Methods of Dynamic Comparison in Linguistics (1990) (56)
The Indo-Pacific Hypothesis (1971) (55)
The First Person Inclusive Dual as an Ambiguous Category (1990) (48)
Nilo-Saharan Moveable-k as a Stage III Article (with a Penutian Typological Parallel) (1981) (47)
some iconic relationships among place, time, and discourse deixis (1985) (41)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification: IV. Hamito-Semitic (1950) (39)
Research on Language Universals (1975) (36)
On language : selected writings of Joseph H. Greenberg (1990) (35)
Some Problems in Hausa Phonology (1941) (35)
The Nature and Uses of Linguistic Typologies (1957) (34)
Rethinking Linguistics Diachronically (1979) (32)
Classification of American Indian Languages: A Reply to Campbell (1989) (32)
The Logical Analysis of Kinship (1949) (32)
Linguistic studies offered to Joseph Greenberg on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday (1976) (31)
Public health problems relating to the Vietnam returnee. (1969) (31)
LINGUISTICS AS A PILOT SCIENCE (1973) (31)
Venereal disease in the Armed Forces. (1972) (27)
Language universals: a research frontier. (1969) (26)
Universals of Human Language, II: Phonology (1980) (26)
Linguistics and Ethnology (1948) (25)
THE CLASSIFICATION OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES (1948) (24)
Universals of Human Language, IV: Syntax (1980) (24)
Arabic Loan-Words in Hausa (1947) (22)
Linguistics in Sub-Saharan Africa (1971) (21)
Jicaque as a Hokan Language (1953) (21)
Two Cases of Synesthesia for Color and Musical Tonality Associated with Absolute Pitch Ability (1961) (21)
The Concept of Proof in Genetic Linguistics (2000) (20)
Current Trends in Linguistics, Volume 7: Linguistics in Sub-Saharan Africa (1974) (18)
Genetic Linguistics: Essays on Theory and Method (2005) (18)
The Origin of the Masai Passive (1959) (18)
Universals of Language: Report of a Conference Held at Dobbs Ferry, New York, April 13-15, 1961 (1964) (17)
Archeology:Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo‐European Origins. Colin Renfrew (1988) (17)
The Labial Consonants of Proto-Afro-Asiatic (1958) (17)
On Being a Linguistic Anthropologist (1986) (16)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification: I. The Niger-Congo Family (1949) (16)
Anthropological linguistics : an introduction (1970) (16)
Is the Vowel—Consonant Dichotomy Universal? (1962) (15)
The Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) Present (1952) (14)
Phonological distinctive features as cues in learning. (1968) (14)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification: VIII. Further Remarks on Method: Revisions and Corrections (1954) (14)
Typology/universals and second language acquisition (1991) (13)
The Present Status of Markedness Theory: A Reply to Scheffler (1987) (13)
A new invitation to linguistics (1977) (13)
On Conditionals: THE REALIS–IRREALIS CONTINUUM IN THE CLASSICAL GREEK CONDITIONAL (1986) (12)
Circumfixes and typological change (1980) (12)
An Afro-Asiatic Pattern of Gender and Number Agreement (1960) (12)
SOME ASPECTS OF NEGRO‐MOHAMMEDAN CULTURE‐CONTACT AMONG THE HAUSA* (1941) (11)
Language in the Americas. a CA Book Review (1987) (10)
THE TYPOLOGICAL METHOD (1973) (10)
An amerind etymological dictionary (2007) (10)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification: III. The Position of Bantu (1949) (9)
NILO-SAHARAN AND MEROITIC (1971) (9)
Two Approaches to Language Universals (1990) (9)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification: II. The Classification of Fulani (1949) (9)
Universals of Human Language, III: Word Structure (1980) (9)
Universals of language : report of a Conference held at Dobbs Ferry, New York, April 13-15, 1961 (1968) (9)
In Defense of Amerind (1996) (8)
The Internal and External Syntax of Numerical Expressions: Explaining Language Specific Rules (1989) (8)
The Methods and Purposes of Linguistic Genetic Classification (1993) (8)
On a metalanguage for pronominal systems: A reply to McGregor (1989) (8)
The Decipherment of the "Ben-Ali Diary," a Preliminary Statement (1940) (8)
Universals of Human Language, I: Method and Theory (1980) (7)
Sociolinguistic Research in Africa (1966) (6)
The "Greenberg Hypothesis" (1996) (6)
THE NEGRO KINGDOMS OF THE SUDAN (1949) (6)
Social Variables in Acceptance or Rejection of Artificial Insemination (1951) (6)
The Convergence of Eurasiatic and Nostratic (1998) (5)
The second persons is rightly so called (1993) (5)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification: VII. Smaller Families; Index of Languages (1950) (4)
Linguistic Typology and History (1993) (4)
On language internal iconicity (1995) (4)
Streptococcal disease in the United States Army. (1962) (4)
Interdisciplinary Perspectives in African Linguistic Research (1966) (4)
The Bantu of North Kavirondo. Volume I. Günter Wagner (1950) (3)
City Size and Sex Distribution (1949) (3)
Numerical Sex Disproportion (1953) (2)
Relative pronouns and P.I.E. Word order type in the context of the eurasiatic hypothesis (1990) (2)
Proto-Linguistic Variation: A Link between Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics (1989) (2)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification: V. The Eastern Sudanic Family (1950) (2)
TYPOLOGICAL STUDIES IN LANGUAGE ( TSL ) (2)
Nilotic, 'Nilo-Hamitic' and Hamito-Semitic: A Reply (1957) (2)
The Indo-European first and second person pronouns in the perspective of Eurasiatic, especially Chukotkan (1997) (2)
The First (and perhaps only) Non-Linguistic Distinctive Feature Analysis (1967) (2)
Language, culture, and communication : essays (1971) (2)
Numerical Sex Disproportion: A Study in Demographic Determinism. (1951) (2)
On the "Language of Observation" in Linguistics. Working Papers on Language Universals, No. 4. (1970) (2)
Psychological correlates of the French sound system (1971) (2)
On the Identity of Jungraithmayr's Mimi (1972) (2)
Juvenile Delinquency and American Values: Discussion (1951) (1)
Linguistics in the 1970's. (1971) (1)
Index to Language Typology (1974) (1)
Linguistics: The Noun Class System of Proto-Benue-Congo. PAUL DE WOLF (1974) (1)
West African Languages Congress (1963) (1)
24. From First to Second Person: The History of Amerind *k(i) (2000) (1)
On linguistic anthropology : essays in honor of Harry Hoijer, 1979 (1983) (1)
General and Theoretical: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture, and Personality. (1950) (1)
Some Regional Aspects of Sex Distribution (1949) (1)
LINGUISTICS: Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (1955) (1)
Reaction to Conquest: Effects of Contact with Europeans on the Pondo of South Africa. Monica Hunter (1963) (1)
5. Universals of kinship terminology (2005) (1)
Health of Vietnam returnees. (1972) (0)
LINGUISTICS: Les Langues du Monde. By a group of linguists under the direction of A. Meillet and Marcel Cohen (1954) (0)
A New Journal (1963) (0)
5. Typology and Diachrony (1974) (0)
LEPROSY AND ANCIENT EGYPT (1972) (0)
The logical bases of linguistic prescriptivism: A parallel between Classical grammarians and Moslem legal theorists (1991) (0)
Sexually transmitted diseases and homosexuality. (1984) (0)
LINGUISTICS: A Short Description of Item Categories in Iraqw (With material on Gorowa, Alagwa and Burunge). W. H. Whiteley (1959) (0)
Book Review:Recent Advances in Chemotherapy. Volume II-Malaria. G. M. Findlay (1953) (0)
Young physicians' knowledge of venereal disease. (1972) (0)
3. The History of Typology (1974) (0)
LINGUISTICS: Language Change and Linguistic Reconstruction. Henry M. Hoenigswald (1960) (0)
4. Typology and Linguistic Theory (1974) (0)
Numerical Sex Disproportion: A Study in Demographic Determinism (1951) (0)
ON NILOTIC , ' NILO-HAMITIC , AND HAMITO-SEMITIC , BY (2010) (0)
The Imperfect in South-East Semitic: A Reply (1953) (0)
Contents List and Index (1964) (0)
2. The Logic of Typology (1974) (0)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification. Part Two: The Classification of Fulani (1949) (0)
3. Grammar and lexicon (2005) (0)
More Linguistics of the Sixties@@@A Survey of Linguistic Science@@@Linguistics in the 1970's@@@Advances in Psycholinguistics@@@Generative Studies in Historical Linguistics@@@Goals of Linguistic Theory@@@Linguistic Change and Generative Theory@@@Pragmatics of Natural Languages@@@Studies in Linguistic (1970) (0)
LINGUISTICS: Hausa Literature and the Hausa Sound System. R. C. Abraham.: The Language of the Hausa People. R. C. Abraham (1961) (0)
4. Common characteristics in phonology, grammar, and lexicon (2005) (0)
1. Introduction: Marked and unmarked categories (2005) (0)
Some grammatical evidence for Eurasiatic, especially pronominal (1996) (0)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification. Part Three: The Position of Bantu (1949) (0)
SOUTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY (2007) (0)
LINGUISTICS: Fundamentals of Language. Roman Jakobson and Morris Halle (1959) (0)
LINGUISTICS: A Course in Modern Linguistics. Charles F. Hockett (1961) (0)
Evolution and Language: Overview (2001) (0)
The Economy of Hausa Communities of Zaria: A Report to the Colonial Social Science Research Council. M. G. Smith (1956) (0)
Contributions to the History of Bantu Linguistics: Papers Contributed 1935–1960. C. M. Doke and D. T. Cole (1963) (0)
Current Trends in Linguistics Volume III: Theoretical Foundations [and Comments and Replies]. Thomas A. Sebeok , Noam Chomsky (1968) (0)
Ancient Maya Tomb Discovered (1984) (0)
Review ofSelected Writings(1949) (1984) (0)
Essays on Language, Linguistics, and Culture@@@Language Structure and Language Use@@@Language, Culture, and Communication (1974) (0)

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The Languages of Africa