格林伯格和多边比较法的应用

格林伯格的学术研究主要以比较语言学理论为中心，以多边比较法(也叫大规模比较法)为其主要方法论。他利用多边比较法对世界语言进行分类，首先他把非洲语言分为四个大的语系，然后又对其他地区的语言进行分类，并提出了相应的假说，即：印度-太平洋语系假说、美洲印第安语系假说和欧亚语系假说。但是他的方法论并不适用于所有地区的语言分类，同时它的客观性也值得怀疑。

Greenberg and Application of Multilateral Comparison

Joseph H.Greenberg's research is centered on comparison linguistics theory,and based on methodology of multilateral comparison.He used this way to classify the languages over the world.First,he classified African languages into four groups;then he turned to the other languages and proposed relevant hypotheses,such as,Indo-Pacific hypothesis,Amerind hypothesis,Eurasiatic hypothesis.But his methodology is not suitable for all the languages,at the same time its objectivity is suspicious,because it's hard to pr...