Joseph Greenberg
Joseph Greenberg · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Linguist who pioneered linguistic typology and the study of language universals.
1915, Brooklyn, New York, United States — 2001, Stanford, California, United States
United States
Joseph Greenberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Linguist who pioneered linguistic typology and the study of language universals.
Greenberg founded modern linguistic typology and the systematic study of language universals, and proposed sweeping classifications of the world's language families, notably his classification of African languages. He was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn and was Jewish. His comparative method reshaped how linguists group and relate languages.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Linguist who pioneered linguistic typology and the study of language universals.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
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