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Jan 1, 1915 — Jan 1, 2001· 86 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · LINGUISTICS · LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES

Joseph Harold Greenberg

Also known as: Joseph H. Greenberg, Joseph H. GREENBERG

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American linguist, known mainly for his work concerning linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.

Brooklyn, United States
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As soon as human beings began to make systematic observations about one another's languages, they were probably impressed by the paradox that all languages are in some fundamental sense one and the same, and yet they are also strikingly different from one another.

— from Universals of human language

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The languages of Africa

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Universals of language

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Language in the Americas

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