Genetic Linguistics: Essays on Theory and Method

by Joseph H. Greenberg

Book Overview

This book collects Joseph Greenberg's most important writings on the genetic classification of the world's languages.

Fifty years ago Joseph Greenberg put forward the now widely accepted classification of African languages. This book charts the progress of his subsequent work on language classification in Oceania, the Americas, and Eurasia, in which he proposed the language families Indo-Pacific, Amerind and Eurasiatic. It shows how he established...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199257728
• ISBN13: 9780199257720
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"