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Leonard Bloomfield
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1887
- Died
- 1949
- Works
- 78
Top works
- Linguistic aspects of science [by] Leonard Bloomfield
- Die Sprache
- Let's Read 6
- Linguistic Aspects of Science [Foundations of the Unity of Science, Vols I and II]
- A Leonard Bloomfield anthology
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1943-07-28
- Active to
- 1981-02-15
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A Conceptual Model of Service Quality and Its Implications for Future Research
· 1985 · cited 35,560x
- 2015 American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Adult Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: The American Thyroid Association Guidelines Task Force on Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
· 2016 · cited 12,282x
- Molecular Classification of Cancer: Class Discovery and Class Prediction by Gene Expression Monitoring
· 1999 · cited 8,467x
- The 2016 revision to the World Health Organization classification of myeloid neoplasms and acute leukemia
· 2016 · cited 8,013x
- The Behavioral Consequences of Service Quality
· 1996 · cited 7,430x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1887-04-01 ) April 1, 1887, Chicago , Illinois , US
- Died
- April 18, 1949 (1949-04-18) (aged 62), New Haven, Connecticut , US
- Alma mater
- Harvard College , University of Wisconsin , University of Chicago , University of Leipzig , University of Göttingen
- Spouse
- Alice Sayers
- Fields
- Linguistics , ethnolinguistics
- Institutions
- University of Cincinnati , University of Illinois , Ohio State University , University of Chicago , Yale University
- Thesis
- A semasiologic differentiation in Germanic secondary ablaut, (1909)
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- date of birth
- 1887-04-01
- date of death
- 1949-04-18
- name
- L. Bloomfield
- name in native language
- Leonard Bloomfield
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Article
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 '40s. 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. He made significant contributions to Indo-European historical linguistics, the description of Austronesian languages, and description of languages of the Algonquian family.
Bloomfield's approach to linguistics was characterized by its emphasis on the scientific basis of linguistics and emphasis on formal procedures for the analysis of linguistic data. The influence of Bloomfieldian structural linguistics declined in the late 1950s and 1960s as the theory of generative grammar developed by Noam Chomsky came to predominate.