Wednesday, May 06, 2026
TO BE A BINARIST IN LINGUISTICS GOES AGAINT THE TERNARISM OF LANGUAGES
Joseph H.
Greenberg, Brilliant and Bold Binarist
https://medium.com/p/b1074b69b831?postPublishedType=initial
He was a pioneer in his
time with his multi-language comparative linguistics that led him to very
fundamental assertions, such as all languages originated in Black Africa and
from there moved to the whole world, explaining that all Black Africans who
never left Africa and had had no procreative contact among their ancestors with
people from the other continents do not have any Neanderthal or Denisovan DNA.
They never met them.
But at the same time he
defended an absolutely binary method to reflect on the universality of
language. He reduced it to an “either-or” approach, which is naturally false since
languages are fundamentally ternary, and communication too. Walking on two feet
is maybe human and good, though it requires quite a good set of muscles to keep
the perfect running equilibrium and momentum based on falling from one foot to
the next, though each leg has a ternary tempo: raise-land-push.
Academia.edu
Comment
Jacques
Coulardeau uploaded a paper
Rare are the geniuses of the future. One may
be aé genius only i n his short time. We are not all Newton, Galilei
Galileo, or Picasso.
Joseph H. Greenberg, Brilliant and Bold Binarist
2026 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com
5 Pages
Communication, * Cognitive Linguistics, * Lexicon, * Phylogeny, * Grammar




