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Joseph H. Greenberg

Joseph Harold Greenberg was an American linguist, known mainly for his work concerning linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.

May 28, 1915 - May 7, 2001

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I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it. — © Joseph H. Greenberg

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.

Joseph H. Greenberg

Joseph H. Greenberg

A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.

Joseph H. Greenberg

Joseph H. Greenberg

The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for the origin and history of our species would, of course, be very great.

Joseph H. Greenberg

Joseph H. Greenberg

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