“I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.” MotherFatherHouseHeardYiddish Author:Joseph H. Greenberg
“A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.” LanguageSpeakersScrewsMechanicScrew UpsAuto Mechanic Author:Joseph H. Greenberg
“The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for the origin and history of our species would, of course, be very great.” CoursesLanguageGoalUltimateSpeciesComprehensiveImplicationsUltimate GoalClassification Author:Joseph H. Greenberg
