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Leonard Bloomfield
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'''Leonard Bloomfield''' (
April 1,
1887 -
April 18,
1949) was an
United States American linguist, whose influence dominated the development of
structuralism#Structuralism in linguistics structural linguistics in America between the 1930s and the 1950s. He is especially known for his book ''Language'' (1933), describing the state of the art of linguistics at its time.
Bloomfield was the main founder of the
Linguistic Society of America.
Bloomfield's thought was mainly characterized by its
Behaviorism behavioristic principles for the study of meaning, its insistence on formal procedures for the analysis of language data, as well as a general concern to provide linguistics with rigorous
scientific method scientific methodology. Its pre-eminence decreased in the late 1950s and 1960s, after the emergence of
Generative Grammar.
Bloomfield also began the genetic examination of the
Algonquian language family with his reconstruction of Proto-Algonquian; his seminal paper on the family remains a cornerstone of
Algonquian peoples Algonquian historical linguistics today.
Publications
*1911: "The Indo-European Palatals in Sanskrit". in: ''The American Journal of Philology'' 32/1, pp. 36-57.
*1914: ''Introduction to the Study of Language''. New York: Henery Holt and Co. ISBN 9027218927.
*1914: "Sentence and Word". in: ''Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association'' 45, pp. 65-75.
*1916: "Subject and Predicate". in: ''Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association'' 47, pp. 13-22.
*1917: (with Alfredo Viola Santigago) ''Tagalog texts with grammatical analysis''. University of Illinois studies in language and literature, 3.2-4. Urbana, Illinois.
*1924: "Notes on the Fox language". in: ''International Journal of American Linguistics'' 3, pp. 219-232.
*1926: "A set of postulates for the science of language". in: ''Language'' 2, pp. 153-164 (reprinted in: Martin Joos (ed.), ''Readings in Linguistics I'', Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press 1957, pp. 26-31).
*1927: "Literate and illiterate speech". in: ''American Speech'' 2, pp. 432-441.
*1927: "On Some Rules of
PÄ?ṇini". in: ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'' 47, pp. 61-70.
*1928: ''Menomini Texts''. American Ethnological Society Publications 12. New York. ISBN 0404581625.
*1930: ''Sacred stories of the Sweet Grass Cree''. National Museum of Canada Bulletin, 60 (Anthropological Series 11). Ottawa. ISBN 0404118216.
*1933: ''Language''. New York: Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 0226060675, ISBN 9027218927.
*1935: "Linguistic aspects of science". in: ''Philosophy of Science'' 2/4, pp. 499-517.
*1939: "Menomini morphophonemics". in: ''Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague'' 8, pp. 105-115.
*1939: ''Linguistic aspects of science''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
*1942: ''Outline guide for the practical study of foreign languages''. Baltimore.
*1962: ''The Menomini language''. New Haven: Yale University Press.
*1970:
Charles F. Hockett (ed.), ''A Leonard Bloomfield Anthology''. Indiana University Press.ISBN 0226060713.
References
*Hall, Robert A. Jr. ''Leonard Bloomfield: Essays on his life and work''. Amsterdam: Benjamins 1987. ISBN 9027245304.
*
Charles F. Hockett Hockett, Charles F.. "Leonard Bloomfield : after fifty years". in: ''Historiographia linguistica'' (international journal for the history of the language sciences) 26/3 (1999), pp. 295-311. [http://www.ilx.nl/blonline/blonlinesearch2.php?ficheid=200000063411]
*Fought, John G. "Leonard Bloomfield’s linguistic legacy : later uses of some technical features". in: ''Historiographie linguistica'' 26/3 (1999), pp. 313-332. [http://www.ilx.nl/blonline/blonlinesearch2.php?ficheid=200000063412]
*Manaster Ramer, Alexis. "Ever since Bloomfield". in: ''Proceedings of the international congress of linguists'' 15/1 (1992-3), pp. 308-310. [http://www.ilx.nl/blonline/blonlinesearch2.php?ficheid=110021451474]
External links
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A biography
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A bibliographic list about Bloomfield's reputation as a linguist in [http://linguistlist.org/ Lignuist List] website.
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