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A Life for Language
A biographical memoir of Leonard Bloomfield
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Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) was one of the greatest linguists of the twentieth century. He devoted his entire life to a thorough-going study of language, its structure and its use, summed up in masterly fashion in his book Language (1933). After his premature death at the age of 62, his work was at first acclaimed as an exemplary application of the scientific method to linguistics, but then fell into unjustified neglect. Now that the centenary of his birth has passed, the time has come for the story of Bloomfield's life and work to be recounted in a biography. Accordingly, basing his discussion on all available materials (including some information not accessible until recently), Professor Hall has presented Bloomfield's life history in its intellectual and cultural setting. This book is not only a biography, but also a personal memoir, in which Ha
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Leonard Bloomfield
LINGUIST
1887 - 1949
Leonard Bloomfield
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 the 1940s. 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonard Bloomfield has received more than 414,813 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Leonard Bloomfield is the 47th most popular linguist (down from 43rd in 2019), the 1,967th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,842nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Linguist.
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Leonard Bloomfield
Leonard Bloomfield (born April 1, 1887 in Chicago) was an American linguist who analyzed language in a behavioristic, mechanistic way. He died on April 18, 1949, in New Haven.
Leonard Bloomfield was born to Sigmund and Carola Buber Bloomfield. His uncle, Maurice Bloomfield, was professor of comparative philology and Sanskrit at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He entered Harvard College in 1903 and graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a B.A. in German. After studying with Eduard Prokosch, he decided on a career in linguistics.
At the University of Chicago, he was appointed assistant professor of German in 1908. Leonard Bloomfield received his Ph.D. one year later under Francis A. Wood with “A semasiologic differentiation in Germanic secondary ablaut”. He married his fiancée Alice Sayers in the same year. He was employed by the University of Cincinnati as an instructor in German for the year 1909–10. He worked in the German Department of the University of Illinois until 1913.
In the winter semester of 1913–14, Leonard Bloomfield began
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