The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for th…

- Joseph H. Greenberg

A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.

- Joseph H. Greenberg

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.

- Joseph H. Greenberg