Böcker av Joseph H. Greenberg

i "e;This is the latest version of the 1956 book which began the modern study of universals, and provides the foundation for many inquiries that followed. The hypotheses are cast at a moderate level of abstraction, and so are likely to survive as a basis for inquiry for many decades to come."e;Prof. Dr. William Labov

The second volume of Joseph Greenberg's pioneering study of the relationship between Indo-European languages and those of northern Asia and North America.

The basic thesis of this book is that the Indo-European family of languages is but a branch of a much larger Eurasiatic family that extends from northern Asia to North America.

A book, that is concerned primarily with the evidence for the validity of a genetic unit, Amerind, embracing the vast majority of New World languages. This book examines the now widely held view that Haida, the most distant language genetically, is not to be included in Na-Dene.

This book collects Joseph Greenberg's most important writings on the genetic classification of the world's languages. William Croft sets the work in context and considers its impact and the bitter controversy it excited.