General Linguistics. — 2003. — V. 43. — P. 113-124.
Greenberg has brought the pioneering phase of language comparison to a close, enabling historical linguists to evaluate and possibly refine or extend his observations. If Greenberg has not proven Eurasiatic, he has at least shown that it is a plausible hypothesis and the most likely area from which the long-sought distant relatives of Proto-Indo-European will be recovered.