Joseph Greenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Greenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Greenberg |
| SIGNATURE | GREENBERG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 119 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 766 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 119 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1940 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Psycholinguistics: A Survey of Theory and Research Problems
PROBLEMSphers and others who had always exhibited some interest in language developed a renewed concern for the field.But their various lines of approach to the problem of language were in some respects remarkably disparate.The descriptive linguists discussing phonemes, the communications engineers discussing binary digits, and the psychologist discussing linguistic responses seemed most of the time to be engaged in wholly separate conversations.…
Language and Archaeology: Review of Archaeology and Language: the Puzzle of Inda-European Origins by Colin Renfrew and A Guide to the World’s Languages, vol. 1: Classification, by Merritt Ruhlen
As Renfrew states at the beginning of his work (p. 1), archaeologists of late have had little to say about language origins. With regard to Inda-European, the focus of his book, it is indeed remarkable that the standard textbook on European archaeology (Champion et al.1984) does not even contain the word Inda-European in the index. It is Renfrew’s view that with recent advances in processual archaeology and comparative linguistics the time is rip…
Genetic Linguistics: Essays on Theory and Method
PART I: CLASSIFICATION, GROUPING, AND SUBGROUPING 1. Historical Linguistics and Unwritten Languages (1953) 2. Genetic Relationship Among Languages (1957) 3. The Problem of Linguistic Subgroupings (1957) 4. The General Classification of Central and South American Languages (1960) 5. The Methodology of Language Classification (1963) PART II: CLASSIFICATION, SOUND CORRESPONDENCES AND RECONSTRUCTION 6. The Principles of Genetic Linguistic Classificat…
From First to Second Person: The History of Amerind *k(i)
In Defense of Amerind
The influence of Word and the Linguistic Circle of New York on my intellectual development
The second persons is rightly so called
Linguistic Typology and HistoryLinguistic Diversity in Space and Time.Johanna Nichols
The last stages of grammatical elements; contractive and expansive desemanticization
Speaking of Forked Tongues: The Feasibility of Reconciling Human Phylogeny and the History of Language [and Comments]
On a metalanguage for pronominal systems: A reply to McGregor
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Proto-Linguistic Variation: A Link between Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1989), pp. 91-101
Classification of American Indian Languages: A Reply to Campbell
Reponse a l'article de L. Campbell (Language, 1988, 64 : 3), qui rejette la classification des langues amerindiennes proposees par l'auteur dans son ouvrage « Language in the Americas » (1987)
Language in the Americas
Language in the Americas
The First Person Inclusive Dual as an Ambiguous Category
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Language in the Americas
Archeology: Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins. Colin Renfrew
Forum
Bericht 0. Der Anspruch "Grundzge einer deutschen Grammatik" (Grundzge 1981; im folgenden mit G abgekrzt). Die bescheidene Zurckhaltung der Autoren bei der Wahl des Titels ist programmatisch und wird im Vorwort begrndet. Die "Grundzge" sollen der Versuch sein "einen berblick ber den Aufbau des Systems der gegenwrtigen deutschen Literatursprache mit der Darstellung der internen Zusammenhnge dieses Systems zu verbinden" (S. 5). Als Anforderungen ne…
The Present Status of Markedness Theory: A Reply to Scheffler
H. Scheffler's discussion of markedness particularly in relation to kinship terms is essentially an attack on the present author's work in this area. His statement that this work is superseded is refuted by reference to the proceedings of a recent conference on the subject in which it plays a central role. It is shown, moreover, that Scheffler did not understand that classical marking theory involves a cluster of logically independent attributes …
The Effect of Electoral Rewards in Multiparty Competition with Entry
The authors elaborate a model of electoral competition for a fixed number of seats in a legislature. The novel feature of this model is that candidates (or parties) not only choose spatial locations as platforms but also determine whether to enter the contest at all. In most previous spatial models, the set of candidates is specified exogenously. Here, however, the spatial positions and the set of candidates are determined endogenously. An equili…
The Settlement of the Americas: A Comparison of the Linguistic, Dental, and Genetic Evidence [and Comments and Reply]
The classification of the indigenous languages of the Americas by Greenberg distinguishes three stocks, Amerind, Na-Dene, and Aleut-Eskimo. The first of these covers almost all of the New World. The second consists of Na-Dene as defined by Sapir and, outside of recent. Athapaskan extensions in California and the American Southwest, is found in southern Alaska and northwestern Canada. The third, Aleut-Eskimo, is the easternmost branch of the Euras…
Some Iconic Relationships Among Place, Time, and Discourse Deixis
Multiparty Equilibria under Proportional Representation
The purpose of this article is to define and to prove formally the existence of an equilibrium under proportional representation, as well as partially to characterize it. Specifically, let m be the quota that represents the minimal number of voters necessary for a candidate to be elected. We show that there is a set of elected candidates, each choosing an alternative and each receiving at least m votes, such that no other potential candidate, by …
The epidemiology of heat-related deaths, Texas--1950, 1970-79, and 1980
A study of the deaths during a 1980 heat wave in Texas revealed death rates that were highest in males, the elderly, Blacks and those engaged in heavy labor, the latter two factors perhaps reflecting socioeconomic status. The data suggest that persistent high temperatures were related to death to a greater degree than the temperature peaks reached. Higher heat death rates in earlier years are believed to be attributable to the limited availabilit…
The Settlement of the Americas: A Comparison of the Linguistic, Dental, and Genetic Evidence [and Comments and Reply]
The classification of the indigenous languages of the Americas by Greenberg distinguishes three stocks, Amerind, Na-Dene, and Aleut-Eskimo. The first of these covers almost all of the New World. The second consists of Na-Dene as defined by Sapir and, outside of recent. Athapaskan extensions in California and the American Southwest, is found in southern Alaska and northwestern Canada. The third, Aleut-Eskimo, is the easternmost branch of the Euras…
Language in the Americas
The Measurement of Linguistic Diversity
The examination of any map of linguistic distributions for an extended area will show some regions of great diversity (e.g. New Guinea, the Nuba Hills in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) and others of relative uniformity (e.g. the aboriginal Eastern Woodlands area of North America, the contemporary United States), while still others seem to be intermediate between these extremes. The problem considered here is that of developing quantitative measures of…
The Effect of Electoral Rewards in Multiparty Competition with Entry
The authors elaborate a model of electoral competition for a fixed number of seats in a legislature. The novel feature of this model is that candidates (or parties) not only choose spatial locations as platforms but also determine whether to enter the contest at all. In most previous spatial models, the set of candidates is specified exogenously. Here, however, the spatial positions and the set of candidates are determined endogenously. An equili…
The Patterning of Root Morphemes in Semitic
Speaking of Forked Tongues: The Feasibility of Reconciling Human Phylogeny and the History of Language [and Comments]
Psycholinguistics: A Survey of Theory and Research Problems
PROBLEMSphers and others who had always exhibited some interest in language developed a renewed concern for the field.But their various lines of approach to the problem of language were in some respects remarkably disparate.The descriptive linguists discussing phonemes, the communications engineers discussing binary digits, and the psychologist discussing linguistic responses seemed most of the time to be engaged in wholly separate conversations.…
A Quantitative Approach to the Morphological Typology of Language
Studies in the Psychological Correlates of the Sound System of American English
Linguistic evidence regarding Bantu origins
This article has two related purposes. The first is to attempt a clarification of certain points raised by Professor Oliver in his article, ‘The Problem of the Bantu Expansion’, published in an earlier issue of this Journal , insofar as it concerns his discussion of the alternative theories of Professor Guthrie and the present writer regarding Bantu origins. The second and more general aim is to survey the basic assumptions of Guthrie's work on B…
Some Generalizations concerning Glottalic Consonants, Especially Implosives
Language in the Americas
An Introduction to the Western Desert Language: A Pedagogical Description of the Western Desert Language, Based on the Dialect Spoken at Warburton Ranges, Western Australia
Jicaque as a Hokan Language
Studies in the Psychological Correlates of the Sound System of American English
1964). Studies in the Psychological Correlates of the Sound System of American English. WORD: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 157-177
Linguistic Evidence for the Influence of the kanuri on the Hausa
The present study is intended both as a substantive historical contribution, and as an illustration of the possibilities and the limitations of one particular type of historical inferences that can be drawn from language, namely, the study of words borrowed from one language into another. Two other basic linguistic sources for culture-historical conclusions are not considered here, those based on the relationships and distribution of languages as…
Arabic Loan-Words in Hausa
The epidemiology of heat-related deaths, Texas--1950, 1970-79, and 1980
A study of the deaths during a 1980 heat wave in Texas revealed death rates that were highest in males, the elderly, Blacks and those engaged in heavy labor, the latter two factors perhaps reflecting socioeconomic status. The data suggest that persistent high temperatures were related to death to a greater degree than the temperature peaks reached. Higher heat death rates in earlier years are believed to be attributable to the limited availabilit…
Multiparty Equilibria under Proportional Representation
The purpose of this article is to define and to prove formally the existence of an equilibrium under proportional representation, as well as partially to characterize it. Specifically, let m be the quota that represents the minimal number of voters necessary for a candidate to be elected. We show that there is a set of elected candidates, each choosing an alternative and each receiving at least m votes, such that no other potential candidate, by …
Studies in African Linguistic Classification
Synchronic and Diachronic Universals in Phonology
In spite of the influential Saussurean dichotomy of synchronic and dia-chronic studies, it has in fact not been possible to keep these two main aspects of linguistics in hermetically sealed compartments. The aim of this paper is to explore the theoretical relations between phenomena in the two fields in the context of the current interest in universals. The examples cited are not intended to be conclusive and are meant only as illustrations
Some Generalizations Concerning Initial and Final Consonant Sequences
The Logical Analysis of Kinship
The present attempt to indicate the general manner in which the kinship system of a people can be stated as an interpreted axiomatic system, with utilization of the symbolism of modern mathematical logic, is intended as a demonstration of the applicability of contemporary logical methods to problems in the social sciences. Aside from the obvious general advantages in the way of clarity and logical rigour to be gained by an application of axiomati…
The Classification of African Languages
Some Aspects of Negro-mohammedan Culture-contact Among the Hausa
The Decipherment of the "Ben-Ali Diary," a Preliminary Statement
Some Problems in Hausa Phonology
[A discussion of selected features of Hausa syllabic structure, tonal pattern, vocalism, and consonantism, with incidental criticism of earlier treatments of the language.]
Some Aspects of Negro-mohammedan Culture-contact Among the Hausa
Arabic Loan-Words in Hausa
The Influence of Islam on a Sudanese Religion
Islam and Clan Organization among the Hausa
The Influence of Islam on a Sudanese religion
The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Tales
The Classification of African Languages
Linguistics and Ethnology
The Logical Analysis of Kinship
The present attempt to indicate the general manner in which the kinship system of a people can be stated as an interpreted axiomatic system, with utilization of the symbolism of modern mathematical logic, is intended as a demonstration of the applicability of contemporary logical methods to problems in the social sciences. Aside from the obvious general advantages in the way of clarity and logical rigour to be gained by an application of axiomati…
City Size and Sex Distribution
D oEs a city's size' influence its sex ratio?2 This is the question posed by the present study. A logical hypothesis is that women prefer the big cities. It is likely that in these places, rather than in small communities, occupations such as clerical and sales work, trade, merchandising, communication, professional pursuits, etc.-in which women find their greatest opportunity for employment-are most strongly represented. In addition, such things…
A Treasury of Jewish Folklore
Linguistics: Le Bura-Mabang du Ouadaï: Notes pour servir a l'étude la de langue Maba. Georges Trenga
Studies in African Linguistic Classification: III. The Position of Bantu
Studies in African Linguistic Classification: II. The Classification of Fulani
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Studies in African Linguistic Classification: I. The Niger-Congo Family
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Distribution of the Nilotic and Nilo-Hamitic Languages of Africa
The Negro-African Languages
Studies in African Linguistic Classification: VII. Smaller Families; Index of Languages
The Bantu of North Kavirondo. Volume I. G ünter W agner
The Patterning of Root Morphemes in Semitic
Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect
Mohammedanism
General and Theoretical: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture, and Personality
Philosophy (74 works) · Linguistics (68 works) · History (65 works) · Philosophy (44 works) · Sociology (43 works) · Computer Science (41 works) · History (39 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (27 works) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (27 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (26 works)