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Joseph Greenberg

1915 - 2001

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Joseph Harold Greenberg (May 28, 1915 – May 7, 2001) was an American linguist, known mainly for his work concerning linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Greenberg has received more than 232,750 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Joseph Greenberg is the 49th most popular linguist (down from 45th in 2019), the 2,120th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,038th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Joseph Greenberg ranks 49 out of 214. Before him are Friedrich August Wolf, August Leskien, Karl Lachmann, Charles Bally, Leonard Bloomfield, and Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali. After him are Hugo Schuchardt, Hermann Paul, Vatroslav Jagić, Hesychius of Alexandria, George Lakoff, and Tuone Udaina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Joseph Greenberg ranks 71. Before him are Konstantin Simonov, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Geraldine of Albania, Tadeusz Kantor, Gretl Braun, and Don Budge. After him are Georgy Sviridov, Kunihiko Kodaira, Hanns Martin Schleyer, Kiyosi Itô, Thomas Merton, and Arsenio Erico. Among people deceased in 2001, Joseph Greenberg ranks 62. Before him are Seishiro Shimatani, Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen, Henry Lee Lucas, Stanley Kramer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, and Masao Ono. After him are Francisco Varela, Vittorio Brambilla, Mirza Delibašić, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Princess Maria Francesca of Savoy, and Nikos Sampson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Greenberg ranks 2,120 out of 20,380. Before him are James Dwight Dana (1813), The Undertaker (1965), Samuel Fuller (1912), Oscar Robertson (1938), Michael Jeter (1952), and Alex Borstein (1971). After him are Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), Cochise (1805), John Young (1930), Ricky Nelson (1940), Bill Withers (1938), and Thomas Cech (1947).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Joseph Greenberg ranks 6. Before him are Noam Chomsky (1928), William James Sidis (1898), Noah Webster (1758), Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), and Leonard Bloomfield (1887). After him are George Lakoff (1941), Joshua Fishman (1926), William Labov (1927), Morris Swadesh (1909), Stephen Krashen (1941), and George Kingsley Zipf (1902).

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