• Leonard Bloomfield (April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949) was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during...
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  • influenced such foundational linguists as Ferdinand de Saussure and Leonard Bloomfield. Father of linguistics The history of linguistics begins not with...
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    and methodologies popular at the time. One of the founding members, Leonard Bloomfield, explained the need for and establishment of the society so that the...
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  • a language. The term was introduced in the 1930s by the linguist Leonard Bloomfield, who defined it as the smallest meaningful unit of grammatical form...
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  • Language is an influential textbook by Leonard Bloomfield. It is described as "one of the most important general treatments of linguistic science in the...
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    inform contemporary approaches to the phenomenon of language. As Leonard Bloomfield stated after reviewing the Cours: "he has given us the theoretical...
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    "it frightens us". These languages have been extensively studied by Leonard Bloomfield, Ives Goddard, and others. Algonquian nouns have an animate/inanimate...
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  • a structural approach to language, as exemplified in the work of Leonard Bloomfield and others. This type of linguistics utilizes different methods in...
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    private residence in Bloomfield Hills. (In the novel by Elmore Leonard on which the film is based, the most prominent street in Bloomfield Hills is described...
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  • sentence analysis that was proposed by Wilhelm Wundt and named by Leonard Bloomfield. The process reached a full-blown strategy for analyzing sentence...
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  • The Atlas of North American English (category Leonard Bloomfield Book Award books)
    taking place in them. The Atlas of North American English received the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award at the 2008 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America...
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  • Lieber were the recipients of the Linguistic Society of America's Leonard Bloomfield Book Award for their 2013 work, The Oxford Reference Guide to English...
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  • families in Europe. Terms used in older literature include dialect area (Leonard Bloomfield) and L-complex (Charles F. Hockett). Dialect continua typically occur...
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    Bloomfield, Leonard. 1958. Eastern Ojibwa: Grammatical sketch, texts and word list. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Bloomfield, Leonard. 1962...
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  • those of structuralists like Ferdinand de Saussure, Edward Sapir, and Leonard Bloomfield. Some structuralists (though not Sapir) rejected the idea of a cognitive...
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  • as a distinct category. The term "determiner" was coined by Leonard Bloomfield. Bloomfield observed that in English nouns normally require a qualifying...
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  • death. In descriptive linguistics, the term was first introduced by Leonard Bloomfield to account for uses of synsemantic words as autosemantic in sentences...
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    1844 Blackbird, Andrew J., 1887, pp. 107-128 Bloomfield, Leonard, 1958 Nichols, John and Leonard Bloomfield, 1991 Corbiere, Alan, 2003 Pentland, David,...
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  • school – or 'post-Bloomfieldian', following the death of its leader Leonard Bloomfield in 1949. Nevertheless, Wundt's ideas had already been imported from...
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  • 1921 book by linguist Edward Sapir Language (Bloomfield book), a 1933 book by linguist Leonard Bloomfield Language: Introductory Readings, an introductory...
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  • Wundt's psychological concept, as advocated in American linguistics by Leonard Bloomfield. Harris's student Noam Chomsky argued for the cognitive essence of...
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  • related concept is that of the episememe (as described in the works of Leonard Bloomfield), which is a unit of meaning corresponding to the tagmeme. Emic unit...
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    integrative way by Chomsky), morphophonemic rules (introduced by Leonard Bloomfield) and an item-and-process style of grammar description (developed by...
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  • Civil Service Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949), American linguist Lou Bloomfield (born 1956), American physics professor Lynvale Bloomfield (1959–2019),...
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  • be said to have originated in the work of structuralist linguist Leonard Bloomfield and was more clearly formalised by Zellig S. Harris. This theory emerged...
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  • of phoneme, morpheme, grapheme, lexeme, and tagmeme (as set out by Leonard Bloomfield), distinguishing insider and outside views of communicative behavior...
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  • University (1985) and University of Edinburgh (2005). In 1996, he won the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award from the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for Principles...
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  • Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time (category Leonard Bloomfield Book Award books)
    Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time is a 1992 book by linguist Johanna Nichols. It is her best-known work, pioneering the use of linguistic typology...
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  • analysis in early 20th century. Structural analysis was improved by Leonard Bloomfield, Louis Hjelmslev; and Zellig Harris who also developed methods of...
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  • practical usage. In the first half of the 20th century, linguists such as Leonard Bloomfield and Zellig Harris started attempts to formalize the description of...
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