Carl Croneberg

Croneberg is a Deaf Swedish man who graduated from Gallaudet University in 1955 with bachelor's degree in English.[2] In 1958, Croneberg was recruited by William C. Stokoe to work in a research laboratory for a linguistic analysis of the language of signs. Alongside researchers William C. Stokoe and Dorothy S. Casterline, he noticed that ASL has a linguistic system (phonology, morphology, syntax). They recognized ASL as a natural language with its own rules of grammar and syntax. Later, he was a co-writer of Dictionary of American Sign Language on its linguistic principles, with Stokoe and Casterline.[3] In the book, Croneberg gave an early ethnographic and sociological portrait on the Deaf community and its regional dialects.[4] Croneberg coined the term Deaf culture and was the first to discuss the differences between Black ASL and white ASL.[5] The work on Deaf Culture and Black American Sign Language continues.[6] Croneberg knew four languages: Swedish, German, English and ASL.[4] He taught in the English department at Gallaudet University for 30 years until his retirement in 1986.[7]

Croneberg and Stokoe at Linguistics Research Laboratory (1961)

• 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[3]