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	Leonard Bloomfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leonard Bloomfield (April 1, 1887 - April 18, 1949) was an American linguist, whose influence dominated the development of structural linguistics in America between the 1930s and the 1950s.
		Bloomfield was the main founder of the Linguistic Society of America.
		Bloomfield's thought was mainly characterized by its behavioristic principles for the study of meaning, its insistence on formal procedures for the analysis of language data, as well as a general concern to provide linguistics with rigorous scientific methodology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leonard_Bloomfield (406 words)

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		Bloomfield thus has to infer that ‘there are no actual synonyms’, but does admit ‘homonyms’, adding: ‘our basic assumption is true only within limits, even though its general truth is presupposed not only in linguistic study, but by all our actual use of language’.
		Bloomfield starts from the idea of ‘language’ being ‘our way of communicating the kind of things that do not lend themselves to drawing’; if meaning is defined as the speaker's situation (4.14), this idea implies that ‘most situations contain features that do not lend themselves to picturing’ (BL 284f).
		But Bloomfield limits his ideas about ‘kernels’ or ‘underlying forms’ to morphology (4.59), where ‘the structural order of constituents’ ‘may differ from their actual sequence’, and ‘the descriptive order of grammatical features is a fiction’ serving ‘our method of describing the forms’ (BL 210, 213).
	www.revista.discurso.org /beaugrande/4-Bloomfield.htm (14256 words)

	Leonard Bloomfield Biography / Biography of Leonard Bloomfield Biography
		Leonard Bloomfield was born on April 1, 1887, in Chicago.
		Bloomfield was one of the founders of the Linguistic Society of America in 1924.
		Although Bloomfield claimed his linguistics to be free of any psychological school, Erwin A. Esper in Mentalism and Objectivism in Linguistics: The Sources of Leonard Bloomfield's Psychology of Language (1968) argues that Bloomfield was influenced in important ways by behaviorism.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-leonard-bloomfield (797 words)

	Bloomfield - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Bloomfield, township, Essex County, northeastern New Jersey, near Newark; incorporated 1812.
		Bloomfield, Leonard (1887-1949), American linguist and founder of structural linguistics (Linguistics: Descriptive and Structural Linguistics)....
		Bloomfield College, private, coeducational institution in Bloomfield, New Jersey, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (Presbyterianism).
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	ACL'99 tutorial, Antal van den Bosch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bloomfield is renown foremost for his work on the development of standardisation methods for analysing (new) languages, and for being the founder of American structuralism.
		Bloomfield proclaimed radical ideas on the nature of language, which in his view was basically behaviourist, i.e., emerging from learned responses to stimuli.
		Bloomfield argued that language is limited to what the speaker/hearer knows, through induction, about the relations between speech and writing symbols.
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	Nineteenth-Century Origins
		It used to be assumed that structural linguistics, as exemplified in the work of the Prague and Copenhagen circles in Europe and Bloomfield and his immediate successors in the United States, represented a definite break with the immediate past, in particular with the views associated with the great historical linguists of the nineteenth century.
		Bloomfield is claiming that since it is not the case that all languages share the same set of grammatical categories the analyst must approach each language with an open mind and record what categories it actually possesses.
		Bloomfield, as it well known, was trained by the neogrammarians and thus must have received these ideas directly from them.
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	Leonard Bloomfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Leonard studied under many different colleges; he graduated from Harvard in 1906, and then went on to graduate from the University of Wisconsin in 1908.
		Leonard had six main publications during his lifetime, and they too have had their own little mark in the history of linguists.
		In the end, Leonard Bloomfield is not only considered one of the best Linguists of his time, he is considered one of the best of all time.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/abcde/bloomfield_leonard.html (449 words)

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		The Leonard Bloomfield Papers consists of a notebook and two reprints, extending from 1935 to 1943.
		Bloomfield attended from Harvard University (B.A.1906), the University of Wisconsin (1906-08), the University of Chicago (Ph.D 1909), the University of Leipzig (1913-14), and the University of GÃ¶ttingen (1914).
		Bloomfield was an instructor of German at the University of Cincinnati from 1909 to 1910 and at the University of Illinois from 1910 to 1913.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /ead/rlg/bloomfield.xml (475 words)

	Leonard Bloomfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A week or two ago, I was walking along the Water of Leith pathway and cycle track, which follows (roughly) the path of the river along the route of a former railway line.
		With one medalist pairing yet to post a score, Leonard sophomore Amber Henderson was sitting in fifth place at the Region II Championships at Legends Golf Club as she slumped forward in her chair, head buried...
		Leonard Tiger and Lady Tiger Hoops Camp is scheduled to run from May 30 through June 2 and will be held at the Leonard High School Gym.
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	Ling Links--People, I-M
		Leonard Bloomfield was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 1, 1887, and his family later moved to Wisconsin.
		Bloomfield spent a year teaching German at the University of Cincinnati before joining the faculty at the University of Illinois.
		Bloomfield's ideas differed from the Port Royal school, because he sought to explain various languages by their own terminology, rather than try to fit all languages into the Latin mold.
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	SACRED STORIES OF THE SWEET GRASS CREE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Leonard Bloomfield was a prominent Yale University linguistics professor who learned the Cree language and then spent five weeks during the summer of l925 on the Sweet Grass Reserve near Battleford Agency, Saskatchewan.
		Bloomfield's six-and-a-half-page introduction is mainly a discussion of the Cree language that will be of interest to linguists.
		In the first part of his introduction, however, Bloomfield explains that "[t]hese texts are part of a series written from dictation," and he comments plainly on his four major "informants." Bloomfield points out the advantages and faults of his story-tellers.
	www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/cmarchive/vol22no3/sacred.html (472 words)

	Amazon.com: Let's Read, a Linguistic Approach,: Books: Leonard Bloomfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bloomfield went systematically through the English language, figured out the rules of representation of sound in our occasionally bizarre writing system, and grouped words together in ways that demonstrate the rules automatically to an absorbent young mind.
		Bloomfield's introduction remarks: "Purely formal exercises that would be irksome to an adult are not irksome to a child, provided he sees himself gaining in power." The phrase reflects precisely the sense of empowerment that I as student and my mother as teacher vividly remember coming with each successive chapter.
		Of course, it is more than 50 years now since Bloomfield and his colleague Clarence Barnhart (who learned of the materials when he mentioned to Bloomfield that he was looking around for a text to teach his own child) first began to look for a publisher.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0814311156?v=glance (1328 words)

	Language and the individual in behaviorism and early mentalism –
		Yet, Leonard Bloomfield regarded himself as the person who would, once and for all, lay down the guiding principles for linguistic study.
		His work as a linguist and psychologist was indeed of epoch-making importance, though more than anything the behaviorism he represented brought about sharp criticism and set other scholars to work out different guidelines.
		Bloomfield and other influential behaviorists (A. Weiss, for instance) regarded linguistics as a natural science patterned after physics.
	www.ludd.luth.se /users/jonsson/Course_papers/Behaviorism.htm (1203 words)

	Leonard bloomfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		•Leonard Bloomfield was born in Chicago in 1887 and died in 1949.
		•Bloomfield’s major work, Language, was published in 1933 and won ‘quasi-biblical’ status as an elementary text for establishing linguistics as an autonomous field.
		•Bloomfield’s concept of meaning: We say that speech-utterance, trivial and unimportant in itself, is important because it has a meaning: the meaning consists of the important things with which the speech utterance (B) is connected, namely the practical events (A and C).
	www.uni-essen.de /~lan300/anthr_ling.htm (1891 words)

	John Benjamins: Book details for A Life for Language [SiHoLS 55]
		Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) was one of the greatest linguists of the twentieth century.
		Now that the centenary of his birth has passed, the time has come for the story of Bloomfield's life and work to be recounted in a biography.
		There emerges from this study a fuller picture than we have had heretofore, presenting both Bloomfield's recognized achievement in establishing the study of language as a scientific discipline, and the less-known aspects of his character and of his personal life, which in certain respects was very tragic and sad.
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	Bloomfield
		Named for the Revolutionary War general Joseph Bloomfield, who later became governor of New Jersey, it had been a supply point for both sides during the war.
		Leonard Bloomfield - Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887–1949, American linguist, b.
		Joseph BLOOMFIELD - BLOOMFIELD, Joseph (1753—1823) BLOOMFIELD, Joseph, a Representative from New Jersey; born in...
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	Bloomsbury.com - Research centre
		The descriptivist approach to linguistic science is most closely associated with the American linguist Leonard, Bloomfield (1887-1949).
		In contrast with current preoccupations in linguistics (see universal grammar), a notable feature of descriptivism is its disdain for the idea that certain universal linguistic concepts and categories are inherent in all human languages.
		Bloomfield asserted the opposing 'infinite diversity' view with the observation that the very next language one came across might well contradict any universal tendencies hitherto observed, and that it was therefore futile to study languages with a view to discovering underlying universal characteristics.
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	Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
		BLOOMFIELD, LEONARD [Bloomfield, Leonard] 1887-1949, American linguist, b.
		Bloomfield was professor at Ohio State Univ. (1921-27), at the Univ. of Chicago (1927-40), and at Yale (from 1940).
		Bibliography: See R. Hall, Leonard Bloomfield: Essays on His Life and Work (1987).
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	Amazon.com: Language: Books: Leonard Bloomfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Intended as an introduction to the field of linguistics, it revolutionized the field when it appeared in 1933 and became the major text of the American descriptivist school.
		Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) was professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago and Yale University.
		Bloomfield's "Language" was perhaps the first work of linguistics I ever read, and the principles laid down in it are good and enduring.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226060675?v=glance (736 words)

	AllRefer.com - Leonard Bloomfield (Language And Linguistics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Leonard Bloomfield (Language And Linguistics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Bloomfield was professor at Ohio State Univ. (1921–27), at the Univ. of Chicago (1927–40), and at Yale (from 1940).
		See R. Hall, Leonard Bloomfield: Essays on His Life and Work (1987).
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	ADBiB - Bloomfield Collection Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There are a few manuscripts, including illuminated religious works dating from the Middle Ages, a number of incunabula, including Higden's Polychronicon, printed by Caxton and the Nuremberg chronicle, and other early printed books from the Aldine Press, Estienne, Elzevir and Plantin among others.
		Leonard Lionel Bloomfield was head of a famous firm of military cap and helmet makers and lived in Middlesex before moving to Elmslea, Withdean.
		The Bloomfield Collection was presented to the Library by the widow of Leonard Lionel Bloomfield in 1917.
	www.adbib.ac.uk /collectiondetails.php?colid=16 (511 words)

	Let's Read - A Linguistic Approach - Leonard Bloomfield and Clarence L. Barnhart
		Let's Read presents a simplified method of teaching reading based on the alphabet and centered around spelling patterns.
		Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949), one of the greatest linguists of our time, created these lessons based on firm scientific principles so that he could teach his own children to read.
		Let's Read was published for the first time by Wayne State University Press in 1961.
	wsupress.wayne.edu /slp/bloomfieldlr.htm (179 words)

	Bloomfield, Leonard on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	Reminiscences by Pike on Early American Anthropological Linguistics
		Bloomfield’s book was more surprising to me because of the elegant way in which he described the development of historical linguistics, of which I was ignorant.
		One linguist told me that Bloomfield was living in his home for the summer, but had instructed him not to invite visitors.
		Bloomfield asked me about Mixtec, and my work with SIL; and he requested that I write to him about my research on Mixtec as a way to complete the Ann Arbor course and satisfy Fries.
	www.sil.org /silewp/2001/001/SILEWP2001-001.html (7202 words)

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		Leonard Bloomfield and the Phonology of the Menomini Language.
		Charles F. Hockett (ed.), A Leonard Bloomfield Anthology, pp.
		Leonard Bloomfield's Descriptive and Comparative Studies of Algonquian.
	ling.wisc.edu /~macaulay/bib.menom.html (1251 words)

	Bloomfield 1933 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bloomfield and adherents wished to make linguistics an exact science, where the concepts are defined, and where it is illegitimate to proceed from hypotheses about what goes on in the speaker's mind.
		Bloomfield was influenced by behaviorism, and believed a scientific description should be physico-mechanistic.
		Should only use terms that are derivable by rigid definition from a set of everyday terms concerning physical happenings.
	www.sil.org /lingualinks/literacy/ReferenceMaterials/BibliographyLiteracy/Bloomfield1933.htm (119 words)

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