Leonard Bloomfield
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1887 – 1949
Who was Leonard Bloomfield?
Leonard Bloomfield was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. 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, adherence to behaviorism especially in his later work, 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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- Born
- Apr 1, 1887
Chicago - Also known as
- Блумфилд, Леонард
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Chicago
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Harvard College
- University of Göttingen
- Leipzig University
- Employment
- University of Chicago
- Ohio State University
- Yale University
- University of Illinois system
- University of Cincinnati
- University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
- Died
- Apr 18, 1949
New Haven
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on July 23, 2013
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