(Truly) From the Archives: Language Universals Project

The Stanford University Archives host the records of the 14-year Language Universals Project, co-directed by Joseph Greenberg and Charles A. Ferguson. According to the Memorial Resolution for Greenberg, “This project employed a half-dozen scholars per year to do extensive cross-linguistic comparisons of phenomena ranging from vowel harmony to noun classifier systems.”

You can find the Archives' SearchWorks entry on the Language Universals Project here. You can also read the University's Memorial Resolutions for Greenberg (here) and Ferguson (here).