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All this having been said, if I were to pick a single word to describe [Joseph] Greenberg's apparent motivation in doing megalocomparison, it would h… - James Alan Matisoff
" "All this having been said, if I were to pick a single word to describe [Joseph] Greenberg's apparent motivation in doing megalocomparison, it would have to be columbicubiculomania-a compulsion to stick things into pigeonholes, to leave nothing unclassified. Greenberg gives the impression that the highest intellectual activity is the act of classification itself, regardless of the nature of the evidence upon which the classification rests.
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About James Alan Matisoff
James Alan Matisoff (born 1937) is an American linguist who specialized in Sino-Tibetan languages and other languages of East and Southeast Asia.
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