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| | MITECS: Bloomfield, Leonard |
 | | Bloomfield did not develop his theory of SEMANTICS to the same extent as he did his theories of PHONOLOGY, morphology, and syntax, contenting himself primarily with naming the semantic contributions of various types of linguistic units. |
 | | Bloomfield contended that whereas the phonological properties of morphemes are analyzable into parts (namely phonemes), sememes are unanalyzable: "There is nothing in the structure of morphemes like wolf, fox, and dog to tell us the relation between their meanings; this is a problem for the zoölogist" (1933: 162). |
 | | Toward the end of the heyday of American structural linguistics, however, this view was repudiated (Goodenough 1956; Lounsbury 1956), and the claim that there are submorphemic units of meaning was incorporated into early theories of generative grammar (Katz and Fodor 1963). |
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