This man wrote an early anthropological text on the Hausa titled "The Influence of Islam on a Sudanese Religion.
This man wrote an early anthropological text on the Hausa titled "The Influence of Islam on a Sudanese Religion." One of his more famous works builds on research of Diedrich Westermann, and in another, he rejected the link of Haida with Eyak and Tlingit in a chapter on "The Na-Dene Problem".  He suggested using core vocabulary like "to eat" or "to drink" to reduce chance similarities when employing the method of mass comparison. A 2001 study by "Culbertson et al" confirmed that humans learn according to the typological patterns this man first proposed in his "Universal 18".  He got into a heated debate with Malcolm Guthrie over the Bantu language, and this student of Melville Herskovits claimed that "mar" was the proto-Afroasiatic word for "to cultivate." The editor of 1978's Universals of Human Language, FTP, name this American linguist who wrote The Languages of Africa.
This man wrote an early anthropological text on the Hausa titled "The Influence of Islam on a Sudanese Religion.
Joseph Harold Greenberg