Leonard Bloomfield

Leonard Bloomfield

American linguist (1887–1949)

📍 Chicago, Illinois USA

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Leonard Bloomfield was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. 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.

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