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Leonard Bloomfield (April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949) was an American linguist, whose influence dominated the development of structural linguistics in America between the 1930s and the 1950s. Events 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne Year 1887 ( MDCCCLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1025 - Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Linguistics is the scientific study of Language, encompassing a number of sub-fields For the use of structuralism in biology see Structuralism (biology Structuralism is an approach to the human sciences that attempts to analyze 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. The Linguistic Society of America (LSA is a professional society for linguists

Bloomfield's thought was mainly characterized by its 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 methodology. Behaviorism or Behaviourism, also called the learning perspective (where any physical action is a behavior is a philosophy of Psychology based on the Scientific method refers to bodies of Techniques for investigating phenomena Its pre-eminence decreased in the late 1950s and 1960s, after the emergence of Generative Grammar. In Theoretical linguistics, generative grammar refers to a particular approach to the study of Syntax.

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 historical linguistics today. Proto-Algonquian (commonly abbreviated PA) is the name given to the posited Proto-language of the languages of the Algonquian family. This article is about the large number of peoples speaking Algonquian languages.

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 90-272-1892-7.
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 Santiago) 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 Pāṇini". Pāṇini ( IAST: Pāṇini Dēvanāgarī: sa पाणिनि a Patronymic meaning "descendant of {{IAST|Paṇi}} " was an ancient in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 47, pp. 61-70.
1928: Menomini Texts. American Ethnological Society Publications 12. New York. ISBN 0-404-58162-5.
1930: Sacred stories of the Sweet Grass Cree. National Museum of Canada Bulletin, 60 (Anthropological Series 11). Ottawa. ISBN 0-404-11821-6.
1933: Language. New York: Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 0-226-06067-5, ISBN 90-272-1892-7. [His magnum opus]
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.
1956: Eastern Ojibwa. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [posthumous; Charles F. Hockett (ed. Charles Francis Hockett ( January 17, 1916 - November 3, 2000) was an American Linguist who developed many influential )]
1962: The Menomini language. New Haven: Yale University Press. [posthumous; Charles F. Hockett (ed. Charles Francis Hockett ( January 17, 1916 - November 3, 2000) was an American Linguist who developed many influential )]
1970: Charles F. Hockett (ed. Charles Francis Hockett ( January 17, 1916 - November 3, 2000) was an American Linguist who developed many influential ), A Leonard Bloomfield Anthology. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-226-06071-3.

References

Hall, Robert A. Jr. Leonard Bloomfield: Essays on his life and work. Amsterdam: Benjamins 1987. ISBN 90-272-4530-4.
Hockett, Charles F.. Charles Francis Hockett ( January 17, 1916 - November 3, 2000) was an American Linguist who developed many influential "Leonard Bloomfield : after fifty years". in: Historiographia linguistica (international journal for the history of the language sciences) 26/3 (1999), pp. 295-311. [1]
Fought, John G. "Leonard Bloomfield’s linguistic legacy : later uses of some technical features". in: Historiographie linguistica 26/3 (1999), pp. 313-332. [2]
Manaster Ramer, Alexis. Alexis Manaster Ramer (born 1956 is a Polish-born American Linguist (PhD 1981 University of Chicago) "Ever since Bloomfield". in: Proceedings of the international congress of linguists 15/1 (1992-3), pp. 308-310. [3]

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