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Carl G. Croneberg is known for a pioneer in American Sign Language and coined the term of Deaf Culture.

Education and Career
Carl is a Deaf Swedish man, graduated from Gallaudet University in 1955 with Bachelor's Degree in English. In 1958, Carl was recruited by William C. Stokoe to work in research laboratory for a linguistics analysis of the language of signs. Researchers, William C. Stoke, Dorothy S. Casterline and himself Carl Croneberg noticed that ASL has linguistic parameters (phonology, morphology, syntax) found in other languages. They recognized ASL as a natural language with its own rules of grammar and syntax. Later he also a co-writer of the publication of the history-making "Dictionary of American Sign Language on its linguistic principles", co-authored by Dr. William C. Stokoe, Carl Croneberg and Dorothy Sueoka Casterline.) In the book, Carl did an early ethnographic and sociological portrait on the Deaf community and regional dialects Carl Croneberg coined the terms of "Deaf Culture" and he was the first to discuss differences between Black ASL and White ASL in his appendices C/D of the 1965 Dictionary of American Sign Language. The work on Deaf Culture and  Black American Sign Language has continued since then. Carl knew more than four languages: Swedish, German, English and ASL. He taught English Department at Gallaudet University for 30 years until his retirement in 1986.

Publications

 * Stokoe, William C.; Dorothy C. Casterline; Carl G. Croneberg. 1965. A dictionary of American sign languages on linguistic principles. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet College Press