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COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF JOSEPH H. GREENBERG This bibliography follows the format of the bibliography published in On language (item 204, 723-37; with emendations) and the corrected supplemental bibliography in Language 78.560-64 (2002). The asterisked items have translations or reprints listed in the appendix to the bibliography. 1940 1. The decipherment of the Ben-Ali Diary, a preliminary statement. Journal of Negro History 25.372-75. 1941 *2. Some aspects of Negro-Mohammedan culture-contact among the Hausa. American Anthropologist 43.51-61. 3. Some problems in Hausa phonology. Language 17.316-23. 1946 *4. The influence of Islam on a Sudanese religion. New York: J.J. Augustin. Pp. ix, 73. 1947 5. Arabic loan-words in Hausa. Word 3.85-97. 6. Islam and clan organization among the Hausa. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 3.193-211. *7. Swahili prosody. Journal of the American Oriental Society 67.24-30. 1948 8. The classification of African languages. American Anthropologist 50.24-30. *9. Linguistics and ethnology. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 4.140-47. 10. The tonal system of Proto-Bantu. Word 4.196-208. 11. Review of H. Courlander & G. Herzog, The Cow-tail Switch and other West African tales. Journal of American Folklore 51.99-100. 1949 *12. Hausa verse prosody. Journal of the American Oriental Society 69.125-35. 13. The logical analysis of kinship. Philosophy of Science 16.58-64. *14. The Negro kingdoms of the Sudan. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Series II, 11.126-34. *15. Studies in African linguistic classification: I. Introduction, Niger-Congo family. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 5.79-100. *16. Studies in African linguistic classification: II. The classification of Fulani. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 5.190-98. *17. Studies in African linguistic classification: III. The position of Bantu. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 5.309-17. 1 *18. Review of Malcolm Guthrie, The classification of the Bantu languages. Word 5.81-83. 19. Review of Georges Trenga, Le Bura-Mabang du Ouadai. American Anthropologist 51.485-86. 20. Review of Nathan Ausubel, A treasury of Jewish folklore. Journal of American Folklore 62.440-441. 1950 *21. Studies in African linguistic classification: IV. Hamito-Semitic. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 6.47-63. *22. Studies in African linguistic classification: V. The Eastern Sudanic Family. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 6.143-60. *23. Studies in African linguistic classification: VI. The Click languages. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 6.223-37. *24. Studies in African linguistic classification: VII. Smaller families; index of languages. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 6.388-98. 25. Review of L. D. Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah dialect. Journal of American Folklore 63.381-82. 26. Review of M. A. Bryan, The distribution of the Nilotic and Nilo-Hamitic languages of Africa. Language 26.173-75. 27. Review of H. A. R. Gibb, Mohammedanism. Journal of American Folklore 63.120. 28. Review of L. Homberger, The Negro African languages. Language 26.170-73. *29. Review of Selected writings of Edward Sapir in language, culture, and personality, ed. D. Mandelbaum. American Anthropologist 52.516-18. *30. The patterning of root morphemes in Semitic. Word 6.162-81. 31. Review of Gunter Wagner, The Bantu of Northern Kavirondo, Vol. 1. American Anthropologist 52.255-56. 1951 32. Vowel and nasal harmony in Bantu languages. Zaire, Revue Congolaise 8.813- 20. 33. Review of Carl Meinhof, Grundzüge einer vergleichenden Grammatik der Bantusprachen. Journal of the American Oriental Society 71.94-95. 34. Review of A. Burssens, Manuel de Tshiluba (Kasayi, Congo Belge). Language 27.438-39. 35. Review of Emil Müller, Wörterbuch der Djaga-Sprache (Madjame-Mundart) gesprochen am Kilimandjaro in Ostafrika. Journal of the American Oriental Society 71.194. 1952 36. The Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) present. Journal of the American Oriental Society 72.1-9. 37. Review of Paul S. Wingert, The sculpture of Negro Africa. Journal of American Folklore 65.104-5. 2 1953 38. An application of New World evidence to an African linguistic problem (Hausa). Mémoires de l’Institut Français d’Afrique Noire 27.129-31. *39. Historical linguistics and unwritten languages. Anthropology Today, ed. A. L. Kroeber, 265-86. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 40. (With Morris Swadesh). Jicaque as a Hokan language. International Journal of American Linguistics 19.216-22. 41. Review of The ethnographic survey of Africa, 6 vols. American Anthropologist 55.162-3. 42. Review of A. S. Aescoly, Receuil de textes falashas. American Anthropologist 55.:445. 43. Review of P. B. Lekens, Dictionnaire Ngbandi, and H. Hulstaert, Dictionnaire Français-Lomongo. Language 29.576-77. 44. A reply to W. Leslau: The imperfect in South-East Semitic. Journal of the American Oriental Society 73.167-8. 45. Comments in An appraisal of anthropology today, ed. Sol Tax et al, 59-60, 117, 224-5, 232-33, 266-67, 292, 352. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1954 *46. The linguistic approach; The word as a linguistic unit; Language change. Psycholinguistics, eds. C. E. Osgood and T. A. Sebeok, 8-19, 66-70, 146-65. Baltimore: Waverly Press. (Second edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1965). *47. A quantitative approach to the morphological typology of language. Method and perspective in anthropology: papers in honor of Wilson D. Wallis, ed. R. F. Spencer, 192-220. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota. *48. Studies in African linguistic classification: VIII. Further remarks on method; revisions and corrections. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 10.405-15. *49. Concerning inferences from linguistic to non-linguistic data. Language in culture, ed. Harry Hoijer, 3-18. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 50. Comments in Language in culture, ed. Harry Hoijer, 130-31, 133-34, 136, 138, 142-44, 156, 160-61, 172-73, 177-78, 188, 200, 203, 211-12, 214, 224, 229-30, 241, 245, 274-75. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 51. Review of Antoine Meillet & Marcel Cohen, Les langues du monde. American Anthropologist 56.1133-34. *52. Review of D. Westermann & M. A. Bryan, Languages of West Africa. Language. 30.302-9. 53. Review of A. L. Kroeber, The nature of culture, and A. L. Kroeber & C. Kluckhohn, Culture: a critical review of concepts and definitions. American Anthropologist 56.568-71. 54. Review of A. Basset, La Langue berbère. American Anthropologist 56.148. 55. Review of W. Schmidt, Die Tasmanischen Sprachen. Word 10.117-119. 56. Review of Guy Atkins (ed.), Unkhoswe Waanyanja. Word 10.117. 1955 *57. Studies in African linguistic classification. New Haven, Connecticut: Compass Press. Pp. 116. *58. Internal a- Plurals in Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic). Afrikanistische Studien zum 80.en Geburtstag Diedrich Westermann gewidmet, ed. Johannes Lukas. 3 (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Orientforschung der Wissenschaften der DDR 26.) Berlin: Akademie-Verlag. 59. Review of U. Weinreich, Languages in contact. American Anthropologist 57:167-8. 1956 *60. The measurement of linguistic diversity. Language 32.109- 15. 61. Review of M. F. Smith, Baba of Karo: a woman of the Moslem Hausa. American Anthropologist 58.749-750. 62. Review of M. G. Smith, The economy of Hausa communities of Zaria. American Anthropologist 58.931-933. 63. Review of Oswin Köhler, Geschichte der Erforschung der Nilotischen Sprachen. Language 32.563-67. 64. Review of A.N. Tucker & J.T. ole Mpaayei, A Maasai grammar with vocabulary. Word 12.487-89. 1957 *65. Essays in linguistics. Chicago: Chicago University Press. Pp. vii, 108. *66. The nature and uses of linguistic typologies. International Journal of American Linguistics 23.68-77. 67. Nilotic, “Nilo-Hamitic” and Hamito-Semitic: a reply. Africa 27.364-78. 68. Review of A Bushman dictionary, by Dorthea F. Bleek, Language 33.495-7. 1958 *69. The labial consonants of Proto-Afro-Asiatic. Word 14.295-302. 1959 70. An axiomatization of the phonologic aspect of languages. Symposium on sociological theory, ed. Llewellyn Gross, 437-82. New York: Harper and Row. 71. Africa as a linguistic area. Continuity and change in African cultures, ed. W. R. Bascom and M. J. Herskovits, 15-27. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. *72. Current trends in linguistics. Science 130.1165-70. *73. Language and evolution. Evolution and anthropology: a centennial appraisal, ed. Betty J. Meggers, 61-75. Washington D.C.: The Anthropological Society of Washington. *74. The origin of the Masai passive. Africa 29.171-6. 75. Review of R. Jakobson & M. Halle, Fundamentals of language. American Anthropologist 61.157-8. 76. Review of W. H. Douglas, An introduction to the Western Desert languages. Language 35.382-5. 77. Review of W.H. Whiteley, A short description of item categories in Iraqw. American Anthropologist 61.163-4. 1960 4 78. An Afro-Asiatic pattern of gender and number agreement. Journal of the American Oriental Society 80.317-21. *79. African tongues and tribes. Rotarian 96:4.35, 61-62. *80. The general classification of Central and South American languages. Selected papers of the Fifth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, ed. A. Wallace, 791-4. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. *81. Linguistic evidence for the influence of the Kanuri on the Hausa. Journal of African History 1.205-12. 82. A method of measuring functional yield as applied to tone in African languages. Georgetown University Monograph Series on Language and Linguistics 12.7-16. *83. A survey of African prosodic systems. Culture in history, ed. Stanley Diamond, 925-50. New York: Columbia University Press. 84. Review of Henry M. 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    Blažek : On the internal classification of Indo-European languages: survey Linguistica ONLINE. Added: November 22nd 2005. http://www.phil.muni.cz/linguistica/art/blazek/bla-003.pdf ISSN 1801-5336 On the internal classification of Indo-European languages: survey[*] Václav Blažek The main purpose of the present study is to confront most representative models of the internal classification of Indo- European languages and their daughter branches. 0. Indo-European 0.1. In the 19th century the tree-diagram of A. Schleicher (1860) was very popular: Germanic Lithuanian Slavo-Lithuaian Slavic Celtic Indo-European Italo-Celtic Italic Graeco-Italo- -Celtic Albanian Aryo-Graeco- Greek Italo-Celtic Iranian Aryan Indo-Aryan After the discovery of the Indo-European affiliation of the Tocharian A & B languages and the languages of ancient Asia Minor, it is necessary to take them in account. The models of the recent time accept the Anatolian vs. non- Anatolian (‘Indo-European’ in the narrower sense) dichotomy, which was first formulated by E. Sturtevant (1942). Naturally, it is difficult to include the relic languages into the model of any classification, if they are known only from several inscriptions, glosses or even only from proper names. That is why there are so big differences in classification between these scantily recorded languages. For this reason some scholars omit them at all. 0.2. Gamkrelidze & Ivanov (1984, 415) developed the traditional ideas: Greek Armenian Indo- Iranian Balto- -Slavic Germanic Italic Celtic Tocharian Anatolian [*] Previously unpublished. Reproduced with permission. [Editor’s note] 1 Blažek : On the internal classification of Indo-European languages: survey 0.3.
  • Euskaro- Caucasian Hypothesis Current Model (2017)

    Euskaro- Caucasian Hypothesis Current Model (2017)

    The Euskaro- Caucasian Hypothesis Current model (2017) A proposed genetic relationship between Basque (Vasconic) and the North Caucasian John D. Bengtson language family. Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory | Evolution of Human Language Project | February 2017 The Euskaro-Caucasian Hypothesis: Current model I. History of the hypothesis II. Description of the languages compared III. Grammatical evidence for Euskaro-Caucasian (excerpts) IV. Lexical evidence for Euskaro-Caucasian (excerpts) V. Euskaro-Caucasian Phonological correspondences (excerpts) VI. Chronology of Euskaro-Caucasian: a family about 9 millennia old VII. Anthropological scenario of Euskaro-Caucasian: linguistics, archaeology, genetics VIII. References Note: This presentation is a highly abridged summary of the evidence for this hypothesis. For more information please contact the author. I.A. The Euskaro-Caucasian hypothesis: from general to specific: The embryo of Euskaro-Caucasian (Basque as a relative of languages in the Caucasus region) was nurtured by several eminent scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Hugo Schuchardt (1842-1927), Heinrich Winkler (1848–1930), Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr (1865-1934), Alfredo Trombetti (1866-1929), Christianus Cornelius Schuchardt Uhlenbeck (1866-1951), Georges Dumézil (1898-1986), René Lafon (1899-1974) and Karl Bouda (1901-1979). At the earlier stages, due to the primitive state of Caucasian linguistics, it was unclear whether the Caucasian part of the Euskaro-Caucasian family included all native Caucasian languages, South Caucasian (= Kartvelian) as well as North Caucasian (= Abkhazo- Adyghean + Nakh-Daghestanian), or only some of them. Thus, until about three decades ago, many Euskaro-Caucasian lexical and grammatical comparisons used data from Kartvelian as well as North Caucasian languages.