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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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Some Universals of Grammar with Particular Reference to the Order of Meaningful Elements (1990) (2355)
Universals of Language (1966) (835)
Universals of human language (1978) (674)
The Settlement of the Americas: A Comparison of the Linguistic, Dental, and Genetic Evidence [and Comments and Reply] (1986) (575)
Language Universals: With Special Reference to Feature Hierarchies (1966) (567)
Language in the Americas (1987) (545)
Current trends in linguistics. (1959) (544)
The Measurement of Linguistic Diversity (1956) (382)
The Languages of Africa (1963) (381)
Studies in the Psychological Correlates of the Sound System of American English (1964) (279)
A Quantitative Approach to the Morphological Typology of Language (1960) (264)
The Patterning of Root Morphemes in Semitic (1950) (256)
ANTIBIOSIS IN SKIN FLORA (1976) (175)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification (1956) (152)
Some Generalizations concerning Glottalic Consonants, Especially Implosives (1970) (137)
Essays in Linguistics (1957) (110)
LINGUISTIC ORIGINS OF NATIVE AMERICANS (1992) (104)
Language, Culture and Communication (1972) (102)
SOME GENERALIZATIONS CONCERNING INITIAL AND FINAL CONSONANT SEQUENCES (1965) (97)
Speaking of Forked Tongues: The Feasibility of Reconciling Human Phylogeny and the History of Language [and Comments] (1990) (96)
Synchronic and Diachronic Universals in Phonology (1966) (91)
Indo-European and its closest relatives : the Eurasiatic language family (2000) (83)
Language typology : a historical and analytic overview (1974) (80)
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) (72)
The General Classification of Central and South American Languages (1960) (69)
The Influence Of Islam On A Sudanese Religion (1948) (67)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification: VI. The Click Languages (1950) (58)
Linguistic Evidence for the Influence of the kanuri on the Hausa (1960) (58)
Some Methods of Dynamic Comparison in Linguistics (1990) (57)
Islam and Clan Organization among the Hausa (1947) (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) (40)
Research on Language Universals (1975) (36)
Some Problems in Hausa Phonology (1941) (35)
On language : selected writings of Joseph H. Greenberg (1990) (35)
The Nature and Uses of Linguistic Typologies (1957) (35)
The Logical Analysis of Kinship (1949) (32)
Rethinking Linguistics Diachronically (1979) (32)
Classification of American Indian Languages: A Reply to Campbell (1989) (32)
Public health problems relating to the Vietnam returnee. (1969) (31)
Linguistic studies offered to Joseph Greenberg on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday (1976) (31)
LINGUISTICS AS A PILOT SCIENCE (1973) (31)
Language universals: a research frontier. (1969) (28)
Venereal disease in the Armed Forces. (1972) (27)
Universals of Human Language, II: Phonology (1980) (26)
Linguistics and Ethnology (1948) (25)
Universals of Human Language, IV: Syntax (1980) (24)
THE CLASSIFICATION OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES (1948) (24)
Arabic Loan-Words in Hausa (1947) (22)
Linguistics in Sub-Saharan Africa (1971) (21)
Jicaque as a Hokan Language (1953) (21)
The Labial Consonants of Proto-Afro-Asiatic (1958) (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)
Genetic Linguistics: Essays on Theory and Method (2005) (18)
Current Trends in Linguistics, Volume 7: Linguistics in Sub-Saharan Africa (1974) (18)
The Origin of the Masai Passive (1959) (18)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification: I. The Niger-Congo Family (1949) (18)
Archeology:Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo‐European Origins. Colin Renfrew (1988) (17)
Universals of Language: Report of a Conference Held at Dobbs Ferry, New York, April 13-15, 1961 (1964) (17)
On Being a Linguistic Anthropologist (1986) (16)
The Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) Present (1952) (16)
Anthropological linguistics : an introduction (1970) (16)
Is the Vowel—Consonant Dichotomy Universal? (1962) (15)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification: VIII. Further Remarks on Method: Revisions and Corrections (1954) (14)
Phonological distinctive features as cues in learning. (1968) (14)
A new invitation to linguistics (1977) (13)
Typology/universals and second language acquisition (1991) (13)
The Present Status of Markedness Theory: A Reply to Scheffler (1987) (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)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification: III. The Position of Bantu (1949) (10)
THE TYPOLOGICAL METHOD (1973) (10)
Language in the Americas. a CA Book Review (1987) (10)
An amerind etymological dictionary (2007) (10)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification: II. The Classification of Fulani (1949) (9)
Universals of Human Language, III: Word Structure (1980) (9)
Two Approaches to Language Universals (1990) (9)
NILO-SAHARAN AND MEROITIC (1971) (9)
Universals of language : report of a Conference held at Dobbs Ferry, New York, April 13-15, 1961 (1968) (9)
The Internal and External Syntax of Numerical Expressions: Explaining Language Specific Rules (1989) (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)
The Methods and Purposes of Linguistic Genetic Classification (1993) (8)
In Defense of Amerind (1996) (8)
Universals of Human Language, I: Method and Theory (1980) (7)
The second persons is rightly so called (1993) (6)
THE NEGRO KINGDOMS OF THE SUDAN (1949) (6)
The "Greenberg Hypothesis" (1996) (6)
Social Variables in Acceptance or Rejection of Artificial Insemination (1951) (6)
Sociolinguistic Research in Africa (1966) (6)
The Convergence of Eurasiatic and Nostratic (1998) (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)
Interdisciplinary Perspectives in African Linguistic Research (1966) (4)
Streptococcal disease in the United States Army. (1962) (4)
City Size and Sex Distribution (1949) (3)
The Bantu of North Kavirondo. Volume I. Günter Wagner (1950) (3)
Nilotic, 'Nilo-Hamitic' and Hamito-Semitic: A Reply (1957) (2)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification: V. The Eastern Sudanic Family (1950) (2)
On the Identity of Jungraithmayr's Mimi (1972) (2)
The First (and perhaps only) Non-Linguistic Distinctive Feature Analysis (1967) (2)
TYPOLOGICAL STUDIES IN LANGUAGE ( TSL ) (2)
Proto-Linguistic Variation: A Link between Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics (1989) (2)
Psychological correlates of the French sound system (1971) (2)
Relative pronouns and P.I.E. Word order type in the context of the eurasiatic hypothesis (1990) (2)
The Indo-European first and second person pronouns in the perspective of Eurasiatic, especially Chukotkan (1997) (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)
Numerical Sex Disproportion (1953) (2)
West African Languages Congress (1963) (1)
Some Regional Aspects of Sex Distribution (1949) (1)
General and Theoretical: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture, and Personality. (1950) (1)
Index to Language Typology (1974) (1)
Juvenile Delinquency and American Values: Discussion (1951) (1)
Linguistics in the 1970's. (1971) (1)
Reaction to Conquest: Effects of Contact with Europeans on the Pondo of South Africa. Monica Hunter (1963) (1)
On linguistic anthropology : essays in honor of Harry Hoijer, 1979 (1983) (1)
Linguistics: The Noun Class System of Proto-Benue-Congo. PAUL DE WOLF (1974) (1)
24. From First to Second Person: The History of Amerind *k(i) (2000) (1)
5. Universals of kinship terminology (2005) (1)
LINGUISTICS: Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (1955) (1)
Some grammatical evidence for Eurasiatic, especially pronominal (1996) (0)
Sexually transmitted diseases and homosexuality. (1984) (0)
SOUTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY (2007) (0)
LINGUISTICS: Language Change and Linguistic Reconstruction. Henry M. Hoenigswald (1960) (0)
LEPROSY AND ANCIENT EGYPT (1972) (0)
LINGUISTICS: Hausa Literature and the Hausa Sound System. R. C. Abraham.: The Language of the Hausa People. R. C. Abraham (1961) (0)
3. The History of Typology (1974) (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)
The Imperfect in South-East Semitic: A Reply (1953) (0)
ON NILOTIC , ' NILO-HAMITIC , AND HAMITO-SEMITIC , BY (2010) (0)
2. The Logic of Typology (1974) (0)
LINGUISTICS: Fundamentals of Language. Roman Jakobson and Morris Halle (1959) (0)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification. Part Three: The Position of Bantu (1949) (0)
Young physicians' knowledge of venereal disease. (1972) (0)
The Economy of Hausa Communities of Zaria: A Report to the Colonial Social Science Research Council. M. G. Smith (1956) (0)
1. Introduction: Marked and unmarked categories (2005) (0)
4. Common characteristics in phonology, grammar, and lexicon (2005) (0)
Book Review:Recent Advances in Chemotherapy. Volume II-Malaria. G. M. Findlay (1953) (0)
A New Journal (1963) (0)
LINGUISTICS: A Short Description of Item Categories in Iraqw (With material on Gorowa, Alagwa and Burunge). W. H. Whiteley (1959) (0)
Numerical Sex Disproportion: A Study in Demographic Determinism (1951) (0)
Evolution and Language: Overview (2001) (0)
Essays on Language, Linguistics, and Culture@@@Language Structure and Language Use@@@Language, Culture, and Communication (1974) (0)
5. Typology and Diachrony (1974) (0)
LINGUISTICS: Les Langues du Monde. By a group of linguists under the direction of A. Meillet and Marcel Cohen (1954) (0)
The logical bases of linguistic prescriptivism: A parallel between Classical grammarians and Moslem legal theorists (1991) (0)
3. Grammar and lexicon (2005) (0)
Review ofSelected Writings(1949) (1984) (0)
4. Typology and Linguistic Theory (1974) (0)
Contributions to the History of Bantu Linguistics: Papers Contributed 1935–1960. C. M. Doke and D. T. Cole (1963) (0)
Ancient Maya Tomb Discovered (1984) (0)
Health of Vietnam returnees. (1972) (0)
LINGUISTICS: A Course in Modern Linguistics. Charles F. Hockett (1961) (0)
Contents List and Index (1964) (0)
Studies in African Linguistic Classification. Part Two: The Classification of Fulani (1949) (0)
Current Trends in Linguistics Volume III: Theoretical Foundations [and Comments and Replies]. Thomas A. Sebeok , Noam Chomsky (1968) (0)

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The Languages of Africa