Leonard Bloomfield

Leonard Bloomfield (Chicago April 1, 1887 - New Haven April 18, 1949) was an American philologist and linguist, one of the most important representatives of American structuralism.

Career

He developed works in morphology and syntax. He was the principal founder of the American Linguistic Society.

He specialized in European linguistic currents, especially in the comparative method that he applied to Amerindian languages. He was a professor, among other American universities, at Chicago and Yale.

In his famous work El Lenguaje (Language), published in 1933 as a revision of his Introduction to the study of language (1914), describes the state of avant-garde linguistics at that time. The book adopts the psychological framework of Watson's behaviorist school and rejects the postulation of everything that was not "directly observable" for linguistic analysis. In the study of language, the semantic aspect is marginalized.

Bloomfield highlights the methods of distributional analysis that Zellig Harris will later develop in his work Methods of Structural Linguistics. Bloomfield's influence on the American and European structuralist schools has been considerable.

Noam Chomsky's linguistics teachers followed the "post-Bloomfieldian" school, although Chomsky would not follow his teachers.

Selection of publications

• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1909/1910. "A semasiological differentiation in Germanic secondary ablaut." Modern Philology 7:245-288; 345-382.
• Bloomfield, Leonard (1911). «The Indo-European Palatals in Sanskrit». The Am. J. of Philology 32 (1): 36-57. JSTOR 288802. doi:10.2307/288802.
• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1914. Introduction to the Study of Language. New York: Henry Holt, reprint 1983, John Benjamins. Viewed 19 April 2009. ISBN 90-272-1892-7
• Bloomfield, Leonard (1914a). "Sentence and Word". Trans. and Proc. of the Am. Philological Assoc. 45: 65-75. JSTOR 282688. doi:10.2307/282688.
• Bloomfield, Leonard (1916). «Subject and Predicate». Trans. and Proc. of the Am. Philological Assoc. 47: 13-22. JSTOR 282823. doi:10.2307/282823.
• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1917. Tagalog texts with grammatical analysis. University of Illinois studies in language and literature, 3.2-4. Urbana, Illinois
• Bloomfield, Leonard (1925). "Why a linguistic society?" Language 1: 1-5.
• Bloomfield, Leonard (1925a). «On the sound-system of Central Algonquian». Language 1 (4): 130-156. JSTOR 409540. doi:10.2307/409540.
• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1925-1927. "Notes on the Fox language." International J. of Am. Linguistics 3:219-232; 4: 181-219
• Bloomfield, Leonard (1926). «A set of postulates for the science of language». Language 2 (3): 153-164. JSTOR 408741. doi:10.2307/408741. (reprinted in: Martin Joos, ed. Readings in Linguistics I, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press 1957, 26-31)
• Bloomfield, Leonard (1927). «On Some Rules of Pānaini». J. of the Am. Oriental Soc. 47: 61-70. JSTOR 593241. doi:10.2307/593241.
• Bloomfield, Leonard (1927a). "Literate and illiterate speech". Am. Speech 2 (10): 432-441. JSTOR 451863. doi:10.2307/451863.
• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1928. Menomini texts. Publications of the American Ethnological Society 12. New York: G.E. Stechert, Agents. [Reprint 1974. New York: AMS Press] ISBN 0-404-58162-5
• Bloomfield, Leonard (1928a). «A note on sound change». Language 4 (2): 99-100. JSTOR 408791. doi:10.2307/408791.
• Bloomfield, Leondard. 1929. Review of Bruno Liebich, 1928, Konkordanz Pānaini-CandraBreslau: M. & H. Marcus. Language 5:267-76. Reprint at Hockett, Charles. 1970, 219-226
• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1930. Sacred stories of the Sweet Grass Cree. National Museum of Canada Bull. 60 (Anthropological Series 11). Ottawa. [reprinted 1993, Saskatoon, SK: Fifth House]. ISBN 1-895618-27-4
• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1933. Language. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 0-226-06067-5, ISBN 90-272-1892-7
• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1934. Plains Cree texts. American Ethnological Society Publications 16. New York. [Reprint 1974, New York: AMS Press]
• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1935. "Linguistic aspects of science." Philosophy of Sci. 2/4:499-517.
• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1939. "Menomini morphophonemics." Etudes phonologiques dédiées à la mémoire de M. le prince N.S. Trubetzkoy, 105-115. Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague 8. Prague
• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1939a. Linguistic aspects of science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-57579-9
• Bloomfield, Leonard (1942). «Outline of Ilocano syntax». Language 18 (3): 193-200. JSTOR 409552. doi:10.2307/409552.
• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1942a. Outline guide for the practical study of foreign languages. Baltimore: Linguistic Soc. of America
• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1946. Harry Hoijer et al., eds., Linguistic structures of native America, 85-129. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology 6. New York: Wenner-Gren Foundation
• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1958. Eastern Ojibwa. Ed. Charles F. Hockett. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1962. The Menomini language. Ed. Charles F. Hockett. New Haven: Yale University Press
• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1975. Menomini lexicon. Ed. Charles F. Hockett. Milwaukee Public Museum Publications in Anthropology and History. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Public Museum.
• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1984. Cree-English lexicon. Ed. Charles F. Hockett. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files. ISBN 99954-923-9-3
• Bloomfield, Leonard. 1984b. Fox-English lexicon. Ed. Charles F. Hockett. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files. ISBN 99954-923-7

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