Contents -- Preface -- Editor's Introduction -- Part I. Classification, grouping, and subgrouping -- 1 Historical linguistics and unwritten languages (1953) -- 2 Genetic relationship among languages (1957) -- 3 The problem of linguistic subgroupings (1957) -- 4 The general classification of Central and South American languages (1960) -- 4.1 Appendix: Tentative linguistic classification of Central and South America (1960) -- 5 The methodology of language classification (1963) -- Part II. Classification, sound correspondences, and reconstruction -- 6 The principles of genetic linguistic classification (1987) -- 6.1 Appendix: A generalization of glottochronology to n languages (1987) -- 7 On lumping and splitting in linguistics and biology (1999) -- 8 The concept of proof in genetic linguistics (2000) -- 9 Review of Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction, by Vladimir E. Orël and Olga V. Stolbova (1996) -- 10 Protolinguistic variation: a link between historical linguistics and sociolinguistics (1989) -- 11 Indo-Europeanist practice and American Indianist theory in linguistic classification (1990) -- Part III. Indo-Pacific, Amerind, Eurasiatic -- 12 The Indo-Pacific hypothesis (1971) -- 12.1 Appendix: A comparison of Greenberg's and Wurm's classifications of the non-Austronesian, non-Australian languages of Oceania, by Timothy Usher -- 13 Classification of American Indian languages: a reply to Campbell (1989) -- 14 In defense of Amerind (1996) -- 15 Does Altaic exist? (1997) -- 16 The convergence of Eurasiatic and Nostratic (1998) -- Part IV. Genetic linguistics and human history -- 17 Linguistic typology and history: Review of Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time by Johanna Nichols (1993) -- 18 Are there mixed languages? (1999).

19 Language and archaeology: Review of Archaeology and Language: the Puzzle of Indo-European Origins by Colin Renfrew and A Guide to the World's Languages, vol. 1: Classification, by Merritt Ruhlen (1988) -- 20 Beringia and New World origins: the linguistic evidence (1996) -- Bibliography of Works Related to Joseph H. Greenberg's Theory and Methods for Genetic Linguistics -- A. Works by Joseph H. Greenberg on Genetic Linguistics -- B. Reviews, Commentaries, and Discussion of Joseph H. Greenberg's Works on Genetic Linguistics -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.