Leonard Bloomfield was an American linguist whose 1933 textbook Language defined the methodology of American structural linguistics for a generation, insisting that grammatical analysis proceed from directly observable distributional evidence rather than from meaning or from inherited grammatical categories borrowed from Latin. In 1924 he joined George Bolling and Edgar Sturtevant in organizing the Linguistic Society of America, drafting the society's founding call and later serving as its president, and the society's journal Language, which he helped launch, remains one of the field's leading venues.
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RoleLinguist, Founder Of American Structural Linguistics 2 Connections
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Hockett structuralist linguistics carried forward and systematized Bloomfield distributional method, representing the post-Bloomfieldian phase of American structuralism.
Nida completed his 1943 Michigan PhD dissertation, A Synopsis of English Syntax, under Bloomfield's theory of immediate constituents; Bloomfield had a profound impact on Nida's thinking about language.
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He is considered to be the father of American distributionalism.
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Leonard Bloomfield was an American linguist whose 1933 textbook Language defined the methodology of American structural linguistics for a generation, insisting that grammatical analysis proceed from directly observable distributional evidence rather than from meaning or from inherited grammatical categories borrowed from Latin.
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Leonard Bloomfield, 1933Associated With: English
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