Guide to the Joseph H. Greenberg Papers SC0615

Eilene Lueck and Kevin McGrath

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

October 2010

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford 94305-6064

specialcollections@stanford.edu

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Language of Material: Undetermined

Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Title: Joseph H. Greenberg papers

Identifier/Call Number: SC0615

Physical Description: 64 Linear Feet

Date (inclusive): 1961-2000

Abstract: Papers largely date from his tenure at Stanford and include correspondence, research notes and notebooks, course files, and reprints.

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Gift of the estate of Joseph Harold Greenberg, 2001.

Information about Access

This collection is open for research.

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Cite As

Joseph H. Greenberg Papers (SC0615). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Biographical/Historical Sketch

Greenberg, a linguist who studied the origins of the world's languages, studied anthropology at Northwestern, receiving his Ph.D. in 1940. He taught at the University of Minnesota and Columbia before coming to Stanford in 1962. While at Stanford he was not only a professor of anthropology, but also helped to found the linguistics department and organized the African Studies Center in the 1960's. He died in 2001.

Description of the Collection

Papers largely date from his tenure at Stanford and include correspondence, research notes and notebooks, course files, and reprints.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Linguistics.

Language and languages.

Greenberg, Joseph H. (Joseph Harold)

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