Joseph Greenberg

GPTKB entity

Statements (55)
Predicate Object
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gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Brooklyn,_New_York,_United_States
gptkbp:causeOfDeath gptkb:cancer
gptkbp:children one daughter
gptkbp:deathDate 2001-05-07
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Stanford,_California,_United_States
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gptkb:Ruth_Benedict
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gptkbp:ethnicGroup Jewish American
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linguistics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Joseph Greenberg
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mass comparison method
work on African languages
work on language universals
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gptkb:German
gptkb:Greek
gptkb:Hebrew
gptkb:Latin
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language universals
African language families
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