A book, that is concerned primarily with the evidence for the validity of a genetic unit, Amerind, embracing the vast majority of New World languages. This book examines the now widely held view that Haida, the most distant language...

“This is the latest version of the 1956 book which began the modern study of universals, and provides the foundation for many inquiries that followed. The hypotheses are cast at a moderate level of abstraction, and so are likely to...