Fwd: Joseph Greenberg

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  From: Zylogy at aol.com
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      <LYRIS-191-449-2001.05.08-15.25.36--x99Lynx#aol.com at list.vedavid.org>
  Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 15:25:16 EDT
  To: "MotherTongue List" <mothertongue at list.vedavid.org>

  I have just read (on Funknet) of the passing of Joseph Greenberg. Certainly a
  scholar of many talents, as well as a maverick in the field of linguistics
  during the repressive era which existed in the Cold War, Greenberg
  contributed to the birth of language typology as practiced currently and to
  the revitalization of interest in long range genetic relations. Roundly
  lauded for the first and often chided for the second of these efforts, his
  place is secure in the history of the field. He was open-minded enough to
  have done work on the above AND phonosemantics to boot! As such he provided a
  model for those who would not let intellectual blinders block their own
  wanderings. He will be missed.

  Jess Tauber
  zylogy at aol.com

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