Joe Greenberg

[David B. Kronenfeld]

Amen !
                                         David Kronenfeld

At 09:17 PM 5/8/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear friends and fellow travellers,
>
>The news of the passing of Joseph Greenberg, yesterday at Stanford,
>California, may have already filtered out through the network. As I
>expect, an outpouring of grief, rememberances and appreciations will now
>begin to gather steam. If one could deign to credit a single person as
>founder of our network, it would surely be Joe. For in his work most
>clearly than in any others', the transparent unity of typology,
>universals, diachrony and functionalism was manifest, indeed boldly
>proclaimed and painstakingly argued. His catholic tastes in languages
>and linguistics, his restless scholarship, his adventuresome curiosity,
>and above all his insistence of understanding and explanation, have
>inspired several generations of linguists and anthropologists. We will
>sorely miss him.
>
>                                                               Tom Givon

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