From the MotherTongue list: "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@... "