Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949)

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About the Author

Leonard Bloomfield, an American professor of Germanic languages, created the field of linguistics as a branch of science. In studying such non-Western languages as Tagalog, spoken in the Philippines, he realized the futility of trying to fit all languages into the format of Latin grammar in the show more common practice in his time. Bloomfield went on to discover the principles of language itself. His book Language (1933) integrated the field of linguistics for the first time. He was one of the founders of the Linguistic Society of America, and he wrote an article for the first issue of its journal in which he explained the need for a society for the new discipline. Bloomfield died in 1949. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Indiana University Studies in the History and Theory of Linguistics

Works by Leonard Bloomfield

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Language (1933) 217 copies, 1 review

Language History; From Language (1933 Ed. ) (1965) 31 copies

Sacred Stories of Sweet Grass Cree (1976) 24 copies

Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach (1961) 21 copies

A Leonard Bloomfield Anthology (1970) 20 copies

Linguistic Aspects of Science (1939) 14 copies

Menominee Lexicon (1975) 7 copies

An introduction to the study of language (1983) 7 copies, 1 review

The Menomini language (1962) 7 copies

Colloquial Dutch: Identical with the edition prepared for the United States Armed Forces Institute (Spoken language series) (1947) 6 copies

Menomini texts (1974) 4 copies

Leonard Bloomfield's Fox Lexicon (1994) 4 copies

Plains Cree texts (1974) 3 copies

Eastern Ojibwa; grammatical sketch, texts, and word list (1957) 3 copies

Lets Read Book 3 (2010) 3 copies

Lets Read Book 9 (1997) 2 copies

Outline guide for the practical study of foreign languages (1942) 2 copies

Lets Read Book 6 (2010) 2 copies

What The Bible Teaches About Guidance 2 copies

Llenguatge , El (traducció de Gabriel Ferrater) 1 copy

Notes on the Fox Language 1 copy

On the Sound System of Central Algonquian 1 copy

Eastern Ojibwa: Grammatical Sketch, Texts, and Word List, 1956 1 copy

布龙菲尔德语言学文集 (2006) 1 copy

Let's Read 1 1 copy

Spoken Dutch, basic course 1 copy

The Indo-European Palatals in Sanskrit (Classic Reprint) (2018) 1 copy

Cree Lexicon 1 copy

Le langage 1 copy

Spoken Dutch: Basic Course Units 13-30 1 copy

Spoken Dutch: Basic Course Units 1-12 1 copy

Handleiding voor de Gids for Spoken Dutch: Basic Course Units 1-30 1 copy

Bloomfield's Sketch "Algonquian" 1 copy

Plains Cree Lexicon: Cree-English 1 copy

Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis (2010) 1 copy

Spoken Dutch (1975) 1 copy

First German book, 1 copy

Bhasha 1 copy

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Edward Sapir, appraisals of his life and work (1984) — Contributor — 4 copies

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Birthdate: 1887-04-01
Date of death: 1949-04-18
Gender: male
Education: Harvard College (BA ∙ 1906)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Chicago (PhD ∙ 1909)
University of Leipzig
University of Göttingen
Occupations: linguist
Organizations: University of Illinois (Assistant Professor of Comparative Philology and German, 1913-1921)
Ohio State University (Professor of German and Linguistics, 1921-1927)
University of Chicago (Professor of Germanic Philology, 1927-1940)
Yale University (Sterling Professor of Linguistics, 1940-1949)
Linguistic Society of America
Short biography: About the AuthorLeonard Bloomfield, an American professor of Germanic languages, created the field of linguistics as a branch of science. In studying such non-Western languages as Tagalog, spoken in the Philippines, he realized the futility of trying to fit all languages into the format of Latin grammar in the common practice in his time. Bloomfield went on to discover the principles of language itself. His book Language (1933) integrated the field of linguistics for the first time.
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Place of death: New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

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cjoymr 48 reviews

Language by Leonard Bloomfield

One of the classics of the field. A must read if you want to understand the American Descriptivist school of Linguistics which dominated before Chomsky.

Dec 11, 2007

ColgateClassics 1,422 reviews

Introduction to the study of language by Leonard Bloomfield