Books in the Janua Linguarum. Series Minor series

"e;Greenberg's survey of the earlier history of typology is without rivals, a must read for every linguist who is curious about the intellectual roots of current typology. This wouldn't be a work by Greenberg if it didn't go far beyond simple historiography, providing a highly original and readable framework for understanding the earlier efforts."e; Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut fur Evolutionare Anthropologie

"e;Jakobson and Halle's initial statement of the principles of linguistic organization should be made available to all future generations of linguists. It builds a solid foundation for Saussurean thinking about linguisic oppositions and establishes distinctive feature theory as the basis of their formal treatment."e; Prof. Dr. William Labov, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics