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Greenberg and 1963
However, it did not come into general use until Joseph Greenberg ( 1963 ) formally proposed its adoption.
Greenberg ( 1963 ) and others considered it a subgroup of Cushitic, while others have raised doubts about it being part of Afroasiatic at all ( e. g. Theil 2006 ).
It was superseded by those of Joseph Greenberg in 1955 and especially in 1963.
* Greenberg, Joseph H. 1963.
In 1963 Joseph Greenberg added them to the Niger Congo family, creating his Niger Kordofanian proposal.
Joseph Greenberg named the group and argued it was a genetic family in his 1963 book The Languages of Africa.
Dimmendaal ( 2008 ) notes that Greenberg ( 1963 ) based his conclusion on sound evidence, and that the proposal as a whole has become more convincing in the decades since.
Greenberg ( 1963 ) had classified it as the Western branch of Cushitic.
The classification of the relatively divergent family of Ubangian languages which are centered in the Central African Republic, as part of the Niger Congo language family where Greenberg classified them in 1963 and subsequently scholars concurred, was called into question, by linguist Gerrit Dimmendaal in a 2008 article.
For linguists, a major point of interest in the Songhay languages has been the difficulty of determining their genetic affiliation ; they are commonly taken to be Nilo-Saharan, as defined by Greenberg in 1963, but this classification remains controversial.
* Greenberg, Joseph, 1963.
When it was first proposed by Joseph Greenberg ( 1963 ) it included the Volta Niger languages ( as West Benue Congo ); the boundary with those languages and with Kwa has been repeatedly debated.
Greenberg followed this distinction in his The Languages of Africa ( 1963 ).
Dimmendaal ( 2008 ) notes that mounting grammatical evidence has made the Nilo-Saharan proposal as a whole more sound since Greenberg proposed it in 1963, but that such evidence has not been forthcoming for Songhay, Gumuz, and Koman: very few of the more widespread nominal and verbal morphological markers of Nilo-Saharan are attested in the Coman languages plus Gumuz ... Their genetic status remains debatable, mainly due to lack of more extensive data.
Dr. Wexler was preceded in the presidency by Dr. Simon Greenberg ( 1947 1963 ) and Dr. David Lieber ( 1963 1992 ).
The Languages of Africa is a 1963 book of essays by Joseph Greenberg, in which he sets forth a genetic classification of African languages that, with some changes, continues to be the most commonly used one today.
* Greenberg, Joseph H. ( 1963 ) The Languages of Africa.
Greenberg in his 1963 The Languages of Africa defined Bantoid as the group to which ( Narrow ) Bantu belongs together with its closest relatives ; this is the sense in which the term is still used today.
Drift in this sense is not language-specific but universal, a consensus achieved over two decades by universalists of the typological school as well as the generativist, notably by Greenberg ( 1960, 1963 ), Cowgill ( 1963 ), Wittmann ( 1969 ), Hodge ( 1970 ), Givón ( 1971 ), Lakoff ( 1972 ), Vennemann ( 1975 ) and Reighard ( 1978 ).
* Greenberg, Joseph H. 1963.

Greenberg and added
Mark Greenberg ( the Coctails ) was added to the band when they started to play live shows.
With stars Charlie Gehringer and Hank Greenberg already in place, the Tigers added future Hall of Famers Goslin and Mickey Cochrane in the off-season.

Greenberg and languages
Various linguists have seen these North Eurasian languages as part of: < ul >< li > a Ural Altaic language family ( popular until 1960s )</ li >< li > a Uralic and an Altaic family ( Anna V. Dybo | Dybo, Roy Andrew Miller | Miller, Nicholas Poppe | Poppe )</ li >< li > separate Uralic, Turkic languages | Turkic and Mongolian language | Mongolian families ( Gerard Clauson | Clauson, Gerhard Doerfer | Doerfer, Stefan Georg | Georg )</ li >< li > a Eurasiatic or Nostratic macrofamily ( Joseph Greenberg | Greenberg, Sergei Starostin | Starostin, Allan Bomhard | Bomhard )</ li ></ ul >
Much of the classification of African languages associated with Joseph Greenberg actually derives from the work of Westermann.
Joseph Harold Greenberg ( May 28, 1915 May 7, 2001 ) was a prominent American linguist, principally known for his work in two areas, linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.
In the late 1950s, Greenberg began to examine corpora of languages covering a wide geographic and genetic distribution.
Greenberg rejected the view, prevalent among linguists since the mid-20th century, that comparative reconstruction was the only tool to discover relationships between languages.
Greenberg is widely known for his development of a new classification system for the languages of Africa, which he published as a series of articles in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology from 1949 to 1954 ( reprinted together as a book in 1955 ).
Greenberg grouped the hundreds of African languages into four families, which he dubbed Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan, Niger Congo, and Khoisan.
In 1971 Greenberg proposed the Indo-Pacific macrofamily, which groups together the Papuan languages ( a large number of language families of New Guinea and nearby islands ) with the native languages of the Andaman Islands and Tasmania but excludes the Australian Aboriginal languages.
Early on, Greenberg ( 1957: 41, 1960 ) became convinced that many of the reportedly unrelated languages could be classified into larger groupings.
In the second half of the 20th century, Joseph Greenberg produced a series of large-scale classifications of the world's languages.
Yet others ( e. g. Joseph Greenberg ) consider grammar a taxonomical device to reach broad generalizations across languages.
This distinction is often overlooked but is fundamental to the genetic classification of languages ( Greenberg 2005 ).
Joseph Greenberg proposed a link between Ket and other Yeniseian languages and the Na-Dene language group of North America in his final study of Eurasiatic languages.
Although there has been relatively little study of these languages compared with the Austronesian family, there have been three preliminary attempts at large-scale genealogical classification, by Joseph Greenberg, Stephen Wurm, and Malcolm Ross.
Joseph Greenberg proposed an Indo-Pacific phylum containing the ( Northern ) Andamanese languages, all Papuan languages, and the Tasmanian languages, but not the Australian Aboriginal languages.

Greenberg and
The Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic and Korean-Japanese-Ainu groupings were also posited by Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 2002 ) who, however, treated them as independent members of a larger family, which he termed Eurasiatic.
* Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 2002 ).
* 1967 Mike Greenberg, American sportscaster
* Adrian ( costume designer ) ( 1903 1959 ), born Adrian Adolph Greenberg, costume designer for over 250 films
Henry Benjamin " Hank " Greenberg ( January 1, 1911 September 4, 1986 ), nicknamed " Hammerin ' Hank " or " The Hebrew Hammer ," was an American professional baseball player in the 1930s and 1940s.
Dramatically, Greenberg hit two home runs in a 2 1 Tigers victory over Boston on Rosh Hashanah.
Absent Greenberg, the Tigers lost to the New York Yankees, 5 2.
Greenberg hit the only two homers by the Tigers — one in Game Two, where he batted in three runs in a 4 1 win ; the other — a two-run job — tied the game in the eighth inning of Game Six, making the score 8 8, but the Cubs won that game with a run in the bottom of the 12th.
Starring as a first baseman and outfielder with the Tigers ( 1930, 1933 46 ) and doing duty only briefly with the Pirates ( 1947 ), Greenberg played only nine full seasons.
* The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg documentary homepage
* 1928 Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli scholar ( d. 2010 )
* 1993 Brooke Greenberg, American child who has remained the size of a toddler, in spite of being in her late teens.
" On the other hand Clement Greenberg called Immanuel Kant ( 1724 1804 ) " the first real Modernist ", though he also wrote, " What can be safely called Modernism emerged in the middle of the last century — and rather locally, in France, with Baudelaire in literature and Manet in painting, and perhaps with Flaubert, too, in prose fiction.
* 1915 Joseph Greenberg, American linguist ( d. 2001 )
* 1950 Chuck Greenberg, American musician ( Shadowfax ) ( d. 1995 )
In 1950 Greenberg retained Eastern Sudanic and Central Sudanic as separate families, but accepted Westermann's conclusions of four decades earlier in 1954 when he linked them together as Macro-Sudanic ( later Chari Nile, from the Chari and Nile watersheds ).
* 1950 Steven Greenberg, American composer ( Lipps Inc .)
* 2005 Mark Tier and Martin H. Greenberg: editors, Give Me Liberty and Visions of Liberty ( anthologies for Baen Books )

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