Greenberg, Joseph Harold, 1915-

Studies in African linguistic classification
book chapter 1949

Summary: Joseph Harold Greenberg was an American linguist, known mainly for his work concerning linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Unknown [1]; Male [2][3][4][5]
Born: 1915-05-28 [1][3]
Birth Place: New York, N.Y. [2]; Brooklyn [3]
Died: 2001 [1]; 2001-05-07 [3]
Death Place: Palo Alto, Calif. [2]; Stanford [3]
Country: United States [1]
Language: English [2]
Occupation: anthropologist [3]; linguist [3]; university teacher [3]
Employer: Columbia University [3]; Stanford University [3]
Educated at: Northwestern University [3]; Yale University [3]; Columbia University [3]
Country of Education: United States [3]
Encyclopædia Britannica: Biography [3]
Yale LUX: Entity [3]
Oxford Reference: Overview [3]
American National Biography: Biography (requires subscription) [3]

Sources: 1. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 2. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 3. Wikidata; 4. Library of Congress; 5. VIAF

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