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Papers, 2001-151 Accession ARCH-2001-151

Box 1

Correspondence A – I 1963-2000

Box 2

Correspondence J – S 1961-2000

Box 3

Correspondence T – W; unsorted 1970-2000

Box 4

Notebooks and notes: Eastern Sudanic (Southern branch, Nubian, Sub-groups); Central Sudanic; West Atlantic; Bantu (Zone A); H. Rishireff; Macro Ge-languages; Central Saharan; Gothric (Zone F, M, S, D); Eastern Adamawa; Psycholinguistics; NDFL Summer 1969 1969

Box 5

Notebooks and notes: Word Comparison Lists; History of Anthropology- Extra Notes; Cariban language; "Logical Bases of Linguistic Prescriptivism: A Parallel Between Classical Grammarians and Moslem Legal Theorists" drafts; Log Book; New Guinea Vocabularies; History of Linguistics; Central Sudanic; Kordopanian languages; General African; Gloria Raspberry; Guthrie- Zone E; Mandingo; Cross-River and Bantoid; Bantu 1968-1980

Box 6

Notebooks and notes: Nigerian Studies; Noun Classes; Language Survey of Ethiopia; Diary- Nigeria 1938; Linguistics and Biology; Sino-Tibetanl; Siouan-Keresan-Iroquian; Petutian; Tupian; Guaycuru; Arawakan; Oto-Mangue 1938-1989

Box 7

Notebooks and notes: Algonkian-Wakashan; Penutian Languages; Andean Languages; Macro-Carib; Azteco-tanoan; Na-dene; Arawak I; Na-dene; Chibchan; Equatorial; Tucanoanl; Macro-Chibchan; Grammatical North American II; Mexian-Penutian; Tupi Proper; Collective Numerics and Distributive; Word Systems Notebook 1968

Box 8

Notebooks and notes: Quantification; Regional Linguistic Notebooks (Algonkian-Wakashan, Chibchan, Miscellaneous South American) Lateral Consonants in Mayan-Zoquean-Huave; Tacana-Pano; Ritwan-Mosan-Siouan-Caddo; Na-dene Languages; Gur; G. K. Moble Notebook; LSA address; Linguistic analysis 1977-1979

Box 9

Notebooks and notes: Possessive Constructions; Word Accentual Systems; Tonogenesis Notes; Diachronic Factors in Phonological Theory; Indo-European Substantive Distension; Universal Methodology; Numerals- 1976 Linguistic Institute; Peoples of Africa; Class Notes (Historical Linguistics, History of Anthropological Theory, Typology and Universals); KAJE Plateau Languages; Ginoiri; Irigwe, Tera 1965-1976

Box 10

Notebooks and notes: Anthropology 174/Linguistics 202; Linguistics 205; Contemporary Theory; Language Families of Africa; Historical Linguistics Course; Typology and Universals class notes; Language notes (Bola Tangale, BUJI, IRIGWE, Ninzam, Nungu, Fizere, Diryanchi, Mbarike, Niger Congo Noun class affixes); Linguistic evidence regarding Bantu origins; Areal Characteristics of African languages; The last stages of grammatical elements. Degrammaticalization & Regrammaticalization; Language and Nationalism; Kinship terminology; Indo-Pacific; Initial Consonant Mutation; Marked and Unmarked Categories 1979-1989

Box 11

CV, correspondence, articles by Greenberg, announcements, annual report-President's Office 1965-1988/89, 1st International Congress of Africanists, Ghana 1962 documents, American Philosophical Society 1975, Bantu origins (reprints), Berkeley Phonology Conference 1975, Chadic Newsletter 1970-1973, correspondence 1967-1975, ASA Distinguished Africanist Award 1987, Natl Sci F grant Diachronic Typology of Pronominal Systems, Amer Anthro Assoc Distinguished Lecturer 1970, Emeritus Ford grant, 1979 linguistics conference, Guggenheim fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center 1982-83, conferences 1960s-1970s, Journal of African History 1970-1971 correspond. Fage & Oliver 1962-1989

Box 12

Correspondence 1960s - 1990s, National Academy of Sciences 1965 letter signed by US Vice Pres H Humphrey,1970s; Haile Selassie Award 1967 (includes negatives); National Science Foundation 1970s; 1970s travel conference papers; 12th Conference on African Linguistics Stanford 1981; Utoaztecan Conference 1980; 1963-1988

Box 13

Publications A – I by Joseph Greenberg; Annotated articles 1948-1990

Box 14

Publications I – P by Joseph Greenberg; Annotated articles 1947-1999

Box 15

Publications P – W by Joseph Greenberg; Annotated articles 1954-1991

Box 16

The Genetic Connections Between !Kung-Bushman and Sandawe by Patrick C. Hartney; vocabulary, translations, comparative word lists; Report of the Benue-Congo Working Group of the West African Linguistic Society, 1968; Benue-Congo Newsletters; Glottochronological Theory and an Application to !Kung-Bushman and Sandawe by Philip Dale; notes on Mamvu; correspondence regarding the Miscellaneous notes and correspondence 1960s

Box 17

Course materials: ANTH 003/LING 001 - Nature of Human Language, ANTH 174 - Typology and Universals of Language, ANTH - Language and Culture, ANTH 290a - History of Anthropology Theory, ANTH 290b History of Anthropology, ANTH172/LING 114 - History of Linguistics Theories; Miscellaneous notes on courses, papers, lectures and talks, handwritten draft of "Two Approaches to Language Universals" 1972-1981

Box 18

Course materials: ANTH 290a History of Anthropology Theory, ANTH 180/LING 214 - Principles and Methods of Historical Linguistics, ANTH 174/LING 208 - Typology and Universals of Language, ANTH 245/LING 245 - Linguistic Change, ANTH 170/LING 45, ANTH 2A/2B - Human Biology, Intro to Descriptive Linguistics, ANTH 277 - Languages of Africa, ANTH 264/LING 208 - Typology and Universals of Language, ANTH 166/LING 145 - Language, Society, and Social Change, ANTH 109 - Peoples of Africa, LING 263 Morphology and Syntax; Maps of Africa; Indo-Pacific Hypothesis manuscript 1966- 1984

Box 19

Course materials: Lecture notes; The Prehistory of the Indo-European Vowel System manuscript c.1980-1988

Box 20

Course materials: Lecture notes; thesis manuscripts 1964-1992

Box 21

Handwritten and typed drafts of chapters of his book: On Language and other chapters and papers. (1) Some Iconic relationships among place time and discourse ; (2) Iconicity paper; (3) Greek Conditionals; (4) Grammaticality; (5) Grammaticalization; Class notes: Anthropology 170 1977-78; (6) Anthropology 270; (7) Principles of genetic classification; (8) African Linguistic classification; more misc. papers 1977-1978

Box 22

Essays and manuscripts: Notes for essays in linguistics; Relative pronoun and P.I.E.; Rethinking linguistics diachronically; 1977-78 Numerals; Russian research on universals; Notes on structural syllable; Psycholinguists; Seven theories; Vowel manuscripts; Reviews of Greenberg's works; Language in the Americas – Greenberg's reply to reviewers Reviews by Greenberg (1940s-1990s); Greenberg, "Are there mixed languages?;" Survey form and form letter re African music and oral data; Correspondence (20000; Audio tapes (Dicos totonas (reel), Compadres & comadres marriage customs (reel), Juan Castaneda – Santiago – Taide #103 (reel), Juan Castaneda stories (second time) #101 (reel), Beliefs [possibly blank] (reel), Assorted audio cassettes; mostly unlabeled) 1940-2000

Box 23

Settlement of the Americas; Language of the Americas; Paper on Nonsense Syllables; reprints; 1984 Stanford Conference on Agreement in Natural Language; The Na-Dene Problem, Language in the Americas; Grammatical Evidence for Amerind; Method of Citation; Mathematical Appendix no.2, the Mathematics of Subgrouping; Language in the Americas Chapter 4; Pronoun Systems; Language and Prehistory, Michigan 1988; Goddard & Campbell; Archer, A Re-evaluation of the Meaningfulness of All Possible CVC Trigrams; unlabeled notes 1965-1997

Box 24

Notebooks and notes: Grammatical notes(South American languages, Macro-Penutian, Northern Amerind, Central Amerind, Arawacan); Typology of Pronomial Systems; Measure constructions; Penutian American Etymologies, misc; Slavic Declensions; notes on Nostraticists' Proto Afro Asiatic; Numerical classifiers; notes on New Guinean Pronouns; Thai-Austronesian comparative notebook; Guide to Learning Kpelle; Austro-Asiatic comparative notebook; Australian bibliographic notes; Indo-Pacific vocabularies; Pama-Nyungan comparative notebook; Coptic phonology and syntax 1970-1999, c.1940

Box 25

Photo album from Africa trip. November and December 1938 Kano B West Africa, Nigeria . Photos of people along with names, professions and roles, demonstrations, ceremonies, daily activities; Bariam Festival photos, photos of shrines of "saints", tools, silver and brass work; cult objects, other objects and people. Some unidentified photos. 1938

 

Addenda, 1999-112 Accession ARCH-1999-112

Box 1

Grammatical notecards 13 folders (originally 4 card boxes)

Box 2

Card files and miscellaneous papers (notebook and several grant proposals): "Towards a world genetic classification of languages" (NSF grant 1976); Grant proposal 1971; "History of linguistics up to the 20th century"; Amerind grammatical elements (note cards) 3 folders;

 

Addenda, 2001-126 Accession ARCH-2001-126

Box 1

Bibliographic citations on individual cards; references in Eurasiatic book (cards - 4 folders); Eurasiatic Comparative Sources (cards - 1 folder); comparative vocabulary cards - one word per card (3 folders); spiral-bound notes; Nostratic/Uralic; Turkic & Paleosiberian comparative notebook; Uralic comparative notebook; Various research and notes - Tungusic Altaic - nonaltaic

Box 2

Notes, course curriculum; Amerind database zip disc; correspondence; articles, book chapters; vocabulary notebooks 1979-2000

Box 3

Hand-written notes; Eurasiatic Grammatical data; Nilo-Saharan Dravidian Etymologies; Regional linguistic notebooks part 22 of 23; Eurasiatic index; Index cards 7 folders

Box 4

Notecards; Eurasiatic semantic index; draft article; correspondence; chapter scans; "Comparative Phonology of Eurasiatic" book draft 1951-2000

Box 5

Chokotkan (sic)/Afroasiatic notes; book chapters (mss); clicks; spiral bound research notebooks; Chukotkan research materials; Northern Asia; Arawak II comparative notebook; Misc. Eurasiatic Comparative Notebook; Armenian/Church Slavic/Gothic/Arabic; Ainu; Irigue; History of Linguistics II; Numeral Systems; "most recent" (includes bio statement and guggenheim application from 1984); Nostratic correspondence 1969-1987

Box 6

Articles, Timothy Usher, drafts of book, comments on chapters, notecards 1990-1997

 

Addenda, 2002-110 Accession ARCH-2002-110

 

Certificates (in oversized box, but not all are oversized):

Box 1 os

New York Academy of Sciences, Dec. 3, 1980

Box 1 os

Distinguished Contribution to African Studies [Stanford]

Box 1 os

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1973

Box 1 os

Linguistic Society of America

Box 1 os

American Anthropological Association, Distinguished Lecturer 1970

Box 1 os

American Philosophical Society 1975

Box 1 os

Haile Selassie Award, 1967

Box 1 os

National Academy of Sciences 1965

 

Addenda, 2004-309 Accession ARCH-2004-309

Box 1, folder 1

Bibliography

Box 1, folder 2

Biographical articles, obituaries, etc.

Box 1, folder 3

Interviews: "Interview with Dr. J. H. & Mrs. S. Greenberg," The Piltdown Newsletter, Winter/Spring 1973; transcript of interviews between Ansar Dill and Joseph H. Greenberg for the introduction to Selected Writings of Joseph H. Greenberg

Box 1, folder 4

Photographs (1 of Greenberg on the Gutenberg express bus 1984, 1 of papers on display)

 

Addenda, 2008-257 Accesion ARCH-2008-257

Box 1

Interview of Joseph Greenberg by John Rawlings, 2001 – audiocassette and transcript

 

Addenda, 2009-244 Accession ARCH-2009-244

Box 1

Plaque: African Studies Association Distinguished Africanist Award 1987 to Joseph H. Greenberg 1987