• 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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  • 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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    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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    "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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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