Language Universals : With Special Reference to Feature Hierarchies

Greenberg, J. H.

ISBN 10: 902793245X / ISBN 13: 9789027932457

Published by Mouton, The Hague, 1980

About this Item

A very good copy of the stated third softcover printing. A bit of foxing to a few of the pages, else the text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance. A sharp copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language Universals : With Special Reference to Feature Hierarchies
• Publisher: Mouton, The Hague
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 902793245X
• ISBN 13: 9789027932457
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Third Printing
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

"This is the latest version of the 1956 book which began the modern study of universals, and provides the foundation for many inquiries that followed. The hypotheses are cast at a moderate level of abstraction, and so are likely to survive as a basis for inquiry for many decades to come."
Prof. Dr. William Labov, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics.

About the Author

"Joseph H. Greenberg was one of the most original and influential linguists of the twentieth century. He died at his home in Stanford, California, in May2001. Joseph H. Greenberg was a major pioneer in the development of linguistics as an empirical science. His work was always founded directly on quantitative data from a single language or from a wide range of languages. His chief legacy to contemporary linguistics is in the development of an approach to the study of language - typology and univerals - and to historical linguistics. Yet he also made major contributions to sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, phonetics and phonology, morphology, and especially African language studies." From an obituary by William Croft, University of Manchester, England. Martin Haspelmath is Professor of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Linguistics, Leipzig, Germany.