Leonard Bloomfield papers 1909-1950

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Leonard Bloomfield papers 1909-1950

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Correspondence, writings, and notebooks entirely related to his professional interest in languages and linguistics. The largest part of the papers consist of a sequence of forty-four notebooks, each devoted to a language or a linguistic problem. The phonology and morphology of twenty-one languages are covered in these volumes. Three unpublished articles by Bloomfield are also in the papers.

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949

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American linguist Leonard Bloomfield pioneered the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. He wrote extensively and his renowned mid-career textbook, Language, 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. From the guide to the Leonard ...