Language in the Americas

by Joseph H. Greenberg

This book is concerned primarily with the evidence for the validity of a genetic unit, Amerind, embracing the vast majority of New World languages. The only languages excluded are those belonging to the Na-Dene and Eskimo- Aleut families. It examines the now widely held view that Haida, the most distant language genetically, is not to be included in Na-Dene. It confined itself to Sapir's data, although the evidence could have been buttressed considerably...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804713154
• ISBN13: 9780804713153
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"