Background
GREENBERG., PH was born on May 28, 1915 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Jacob Greenberg and Florence Pilzer Greenberg.
GREENBERG., PH was born on May 28, 1915 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Jacob Greenberg and Florence Pilzer Greenberg.
Columbia College, and Northwestern University.
Assistant Professor University of Minnesota 1946-1948. Assistant, Association, then Professor, Columbia University 1948-1962. Director West African Languages Survey 1959-1966.
Professor, of Anthropology, Stanford University 1962-1985, Ray Lyman Wilbur Distinguished Professor, of Social Sciences 1971.
Collitz Professor Summer Linguistic Institute, Stanford 1987. First Distinguished Lecturer, American Anthropological Association 1970.
President Linguistic Society of America 1977. Guggenheim Fellow 1955, 1982.
Fellow Stanford Humanities Center 1982.
Honorary Doctorate.Se. (Northwestern University) 1982. Haile Sellassie I.
North.A.S., American Academy, of Arts and Sciences since 1972, American Philosophical Society 1975.
Married Selma Berkowitz in 1940.