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Greenberg, Joseph Harold
(Encyclopedia) Greenberg, Joseph Harold, 1915–2001, American anthropological linguist, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (A.B., 1936) and Northwestern Univ. (Ph.D., 1940). He was a professor of…Brewer's: Sentences
(3 syl.). The four books of Sentences, by Pierre Lombard, the foundation of scholastic theology of the middle period. (See Schoolmen.) Master of the Sentences. Pierre Lombard, schoolman…Brewer's: Grammar
Zenodotos invented the terms singular, plural, and dual. The scholars of Alexandria and of the rival academy of Pergamos were the first to distinguish language into parts of speech, and to…Norse
(Encyclopedia) Norse, another name for the North Germanic, or Scandinavian, group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). The modern Norse…Afrikaans
(Encyclopedia) AfrikaansAfrikaansăfˌrəkänsˈ [key], member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Although its…grammar
(Encyclopedia) grammar, description of the structure of a language, consisting of the sounds (see phonology); the meaningful combinations of these sounds into words or parts of words, called…accusative
(Encyclopedia) accusativeaccusativeəky&oomacr;ˈzətĭvˌ [key] [Lat.,=accusing], in grammar of some languages, such as Latin, the case typically meaning that the noun refers to the entity directly…Verner, Karl Adolf
(Encyclopedia) Verner, Karl AdolfVerner, Karl Adolfvûrˈnər, Dan. kärl äˈdôlf vĕrˈnər [key], 1846–96, Danish philologist. Verner was a librarian at the Univ. of Halle (now in E Germany) and a…Yokuts
(Encyclopedia) YokutsYokutsyōˈk&oobreve;ts [key], Native North Americans of S California. Their culture was essentially that of the California cultural area, and their basketry and pictographs…Danish language
(Encyclopedia) Danish language, member of the North Germanic, or Scandinavian, group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. The official language of Denmark, it is spoken…Trending
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