If you liked Universals of human language by Joseph Harold Greenberg and Edith A. Moravcsik, start with The languages of Africa (Publication of the Indiana University Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics) (1966), Language in the Americas (1987), and Necessary and possible universals about temporal constituent-relations in language (1977). These recommendations are drawn from the same author, shared genres, and reader overlap on BookOrb.

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  1. 1 The languages of Africa (Publication of the Indiana University Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics) 1966 · Joseph Harold Greenberg · Same author
  2. 2 Language in the Americas 1987 · 438 pages · Joseph Harold Greenberg · Same author
  3. 3 Necessary and possible universals about temporal constituent-relations in language 1977 · 83 pages · Edith A. Moravcsik · Same author
  4. 4 GENETIC LINGUISTICS: ESSAYS ON THEORY AND METHOD Joseph Harold Greenberg · Same author
  5. 5 The influence of Islam on a Sudanese religion 1966 · 73 pages · Joseph Harold Greenberg · Same author
  6. 6 Studies in syntactic typology 1988 · 394 pages · Edith A. Moravcsik · Same author
  7. 7 CHURCHILL, TAKEN FROM DIARIES OF LORD MORAN STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL; HISTORY BIOG Joseph Harold Greenberg · Same author
  8. 8 Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics : Volume I 1999 · 486 pages · Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Kathleen Wheatley · Same author
  9. 9 The languages of Africa (Publication / Research Center for the Language Sciences, Indiana University) 1970 · 180 pages · Joseph Harold Greenberg · Same author
  10. 10 Language, culture, and communication: essays 1971 · 367 pages · Joseph Harold Greenberg, Anwar S. Dil · Same author
  11. 11 The theory of social situations 2012 · 187 pages · Joseph Greenberg, Joseph Harold Greenberg · Same author
  12. 12 Formulaic Language Vol. 2 2009 · 361 pages · Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali, Kathleen Wheatley · Same author

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Universals of human language is by Joseph Harold Greenberg and Edith A. Moravcsik.