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Classification of American Indian Languages: A Reply to Campbell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

Joseph H. Greenberg
Joseph H. Greenberg*
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Stanford University
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Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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Language , Volume 65 , Issue 1 , March 1989, pp. 107 - 114
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Copyright © 1989 by Linguistic Society of America

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