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Bloomfield, Leonard
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Bloomfield, Leonard (1887–1949)

US linguist who carried out extensive field research, notably on Tagalog (Filipino), spoken in the Philippines, and on the languages of North American Indians. His widely influential Languages 1933 is a rigorous analysis of the theory and methodology of linguistic research.

Bloomfield's aim was to make linguistics a scientific discipline. This led him to adopt a behaviourist approach to research, concerned solely with what can be observed and measured – with form (phonology, syntax, and morphology) rather than meaning (semantics). He stressed that research should concentrate on the spoken rather than the written language, and argued that at any given time the sounds and forms of a language could be seen as a complete system, the history of their gradual evolution (the focus of 19th-century philosophy) being irrelevant. Bloomfield's ideas dominated American linguistics until the appearance of Noam Chomsky's theories in the late 1950s.

He was professor of linguistics at Chicago University 1927–40 and at Yale from 1940.
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Summary As a final conclusion of all of this, both my understanding of GS and that of the field of Bloomfieldian linguistics lead me to the same conclusion that was summarized in Dawes' statement that, "Words, by themselves, do not have meanings.
Do words have inherent meaning? by Wright, David E. / ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
That the relevance of Bloomfieldian criteria is non-universal (in the sense of not common to all languages), is remarked in Pulgram (1954: 42) and particularly Anderson (2004): "[t]he extent to which there are overt markers of name-hood varies from language to language, so that definitions of names involving superficial formal properties .
Names, derivational morphology, and Old English gender by Colman, Fran / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
but as a technical term in linguistics it dates from what we now know as the Bloomfieldian paradigm.
E-Prime: speaking crisply by Bourland, D. David, Jr. / ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
 
 
 
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