Greenberg's book "Language in the Americas"
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Greenberg's book "Language in the Americas" is a controversial 1987 linguistic work that proposes a single large Amerind macro-family uniting most indigenous languages of the Americas.
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| Greenberg's book "Language in the Americas" canonical | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
book
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linguistics monograph ⓘ |
| addressesQuestion | whether most American Indian languages share a common ancestor ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
long-range comparison in linguistics
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macro-family hypotheses ⓘ |
| author | Joseph H. Greenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorAffiliation | Stanford University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| claims | most Native American languages belong to one macro-family ⓘ |
| classificationScope |
Central American indigenous languages
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North American indigenous languages NERFINISHED ⓘ South American indigenous languages ⓘ |
| controversial | true ⓘ |
| controversyInvolves | Americanist linguistics community ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticizedFor |
insufficient application of the comparative method
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methodological weaknesses ⓘ reliance on mass comparison of word lists ⓘ |
| excludes |
Eskimo–Aleut language family
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Na-Dene language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldReception | widely rejected by most historical linguists ⓘ |
| focusesOn | indigenous languages of the Americas ⓘ |
| genre | academic non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasNotableConcept |
Amerind superstock
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classification of Native American language families into a single macro-family ⓘ |
| hasReception | frequently cited as an example of disputed long-range linguistic classification ⓘ |
| hasReputation | highly controversial work in historical linguistics ⓘ |
| impactOnDiscipline | stimulated critical discussion of methods in language classification ⓘ |
| inAcademicDebateSince | late 1980s ⓘ |
| influenced | subsequent debates on long-range language classification ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Amerindian languages
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historical linguistics ⓘ language classification ⓘ |
| methodologicalApproach | comparison of basic vocabulary items ⓘ |
| methodology | mass lexical comparison ⓘ |
| proposes |
Amerind macro-family
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single genetic grouping for most indigenous languages of the Americas ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| publisher | Stanford University Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Greenberg's Eurasiatic hypothesis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scholarlyConsensus | Amerind macro-family not accepted ⓘ |
| timePeriodDiscussed | prehistory of the Americas ⓘ |
| topic | genetic relationships among indigenous languages of the Americas ⓘ |
| usesDataFrom | Native American language vocabularies ⓘ |
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Amerind as a macro-family of the Americas
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Greenberg's book "Language in the Americas"
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subject surface form:
Amerind (linguistic macro-family hypothesis)