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Greenberg, Joseph - Obituary emphasizing his work on classifying the languages of Africa and the Americas.

Joseph Greenberg - Joseph Harold Greenberg (May 28, 1915–May 7, 2001) was a prominent and controversial linguist and Africanist anthropologist, known for his work in both language classification and typology. He was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, USA, and served for many years on the faculty of Stanford ...
Joseph Greenberg (disambiguation) - Joseph Greenberg may refer to one of
Joseph J. Greenberg - Joseph J. Greenberg (1883-1963) was a Philadelphia real estate developer, builder and broker for more than fifty years, was a member of the Board of Public Education for twenty years.
The Languages of Africa - The Languages of Africa is a seminal 1963 book of essays by Joseph Greenberg, in which he sets forth a genetic classification of African languages that, with some changes, continues to be the most commonly used one today. It is an expanded and extensively revised version of his 1955 work Studies in African Linguistic Classification, which was itself a compilation of ...
Amerind languages - Amerind is one of the three main families in Joseph Greenberg's controversial classification of all Native American languages, obtained by his mass lexical comparison method — the other two being the widely accepted Na-Dené and Eskimo-Aleut families. These three groupings represent three distinct waves of migration in Greenberg's theory, with all American languages outside ...