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Leonard Bloomfield
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It is catalogued under topics including 1887 births, 1949 deaths and 20th-century American linguists.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1887-04-01 ) April 1, 1887, Chicago , Illinois , US
- Died
- April 18, 1949 (1949-04-18) (aged 62), New Haven, Connecticut , US
- Alma mater
- Harvard College , University of Wisconsin , University of Chicago , University of Leipzig , University of Göttingen
- Spouse
- Alice Sayers
- Fields
- Linguistics , ethnolinguistics
- Institutions
- University of Cincinnati , University of Illinois , Ohio State University , University of Chicago , Yale University
- Thesis
- A semasiologic differentiation in Germanic secondary ablaut, (1909)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Leonard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Place of death
- New Haven
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Harvard College
- Employer
- Ohio State University
- Languages spoken
- German
- Field of work
- linguistics
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- date of birth
- 1887-04-01
- date of death
- 1949-04-18
- name
- L. Bloomfield
- influenced by
- August Leskien
- name in native language
- Leonard Bloomfield
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
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Encyclopedic overview
Leonard Bloomfield (April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949) was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and '40s. He is considered to be the father of American distributionalism. His influential textbook Language, published in 1933, presented a comprehensive description of American structural linguistics. He made significant contributions to Indo-European historical linguistics, the description of Austronesian languages, and description of languages of the Algonquian family.
Bloomfield's approach to linguistics was characterized by its emphasis on the scientific basis of linguistics and emphasis on formal procedures for the analysis of linguistic data. The influence of Bloomfieldian structural linguistics declined in the late 1950s and 1960s as the theory of generative grammar developed by Noam Chomsky came to predominate.
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