Genetic Linguistics

• Collects the key writings of one of the greatest linguists of the twentieth century
• Focusses on his ground-breaking work in the classification of human languages
• Will be highly controversial
• Edited with an introduction by William Croft

Readership: Scholars and advanced students of language evolution, change, and classification in departments of linguistics, archaeology, and anthropology.

"This [book] constitutes a service to the historical linguistics community...Croft is to be congratulated in allowing us some additional insight into the development of Greenberg's ideas and his reaction to his critics." - April McMahon, Times Hig her Education

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 Classification (1987)
7: On Lumping and Splitting in Linguistics and Biology (1999)
8: The Concept of Proof in Genetic Linguistics (2000)
9: Review of Vladimir E. Orel & Olga V. Stolbova, Hamito-Semitic etymological dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (1996)
10: Proto-linguistic Variation: A Link Between Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics (1989)
11: Indo-European Practice and American Indianist Theory in Linguistic Classification (1990)
Part III: Indo-Pacific, Amerind, Eurasiatic
12: The Indo-Pacific Hypothesis (1971)
13: Classification of American Indian Languages: A Reply to Campbell (1989)
14: In Defense of Amerind (1996)
15: Does Altaic Exist? (1997)
16: The Convergence of Eurasiatic and Nostratic (1998)
Part IV: Genetic Linguistics and Human History
17: Linguistic Typology and History: Review of Johanna Nichols, Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time (1993)
18: Are There Mixed Languages (1999)
19: Language and Archaeology: Review of Colin Renfrew, Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins and Merritt Ruhlen, A Guide to the World's Languages, vol. 1: Classification (1988)
20: Beringia and New World Origins: The Linguistic Evidence (1996)
Bibliography of Works Related to Joseph H. Greenberg's Theory and Methods for Genetic Linguistics
Appendix A
Works by Joseph H. Greenberg on Genetic Linguistics
Appendix B
Reviews, Commentaries and Discussion of Joseph H. Greenberg's Works on Genetic Linguistics
Index