ABSTRACT
Reprinted from Betty J. Meggers (Ed.), Evolution and Anthropology: A Centennial Appraisal (Washington, D. C.: Anthropological Society of Washington, 1959). Joseph H. Greenberg is Professor of Anthropology, Chairman of the Committee on African Studies, and Acting Chairman of the Committee on Linguistics at Stanford University. One of his major interests has been the classification of languages, such as those of Africa and, more recently, the non-Austronesian languages of the Pacific., He has worked extensively in theoretical linguistics on the universals of language. He is the author of Languages of Africa and Essays in Linguistics. and the editor of Universals of Language.
