Leonard Bloomfield
Essays on his life & work
Editor
These essays were brought together to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949), one of the most outstanding and influential linguists of the twentieth century. The contributions have been grouped in three sections according to their relevance to his work, and deal, respectively, with his personality, his theoretical stance, and his fields of study.
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 47] 1987. x, 237 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Prefatory Remarks | p. ix
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I. Bloomfield's Personality
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My Recollections of Leonard BloomfieldLeon M. Despres | p. 3
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The Small Mythologies of Leonard BloomfieldFrances Clarke Sayers | p. 15
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The Whimsical BloomfieldJ Milton Cowan | p. 23
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Letters from Bloomfield to Michelson and SapirCharles F. Hockett | p. 39
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Bloomfield the ManRobert A. Hall | p. 61
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II. Bloomfield's Theoretical Stance
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Bloomfield and Historical LinguisticsHenry M. Hoenigswald | p. 73
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The Influence of Pāṇini on Leonard BloomfieldDavid E. Rogers | p. 89
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Bloomfield as DialectologistWilliam G. Moulton | p. 139
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Bloomfield and SemanticsRobert A. Hall | p. 155
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III. Bloomfield's Fields of Study
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Bloomfield as an Indo-EuropeanistWinfred P. Lehmann | p. 163
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Bloomfield as an AustronesianistJohn U. Wolff | p. 173
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Leonard Bloomfield's Descriptive and Comparative Studies of AlgonquianIves Goddard | p. 179
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IV. Bibliography
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A New Leonard Bloomfield BibliographyCharles F. Hockett and Robert A. Hall | p. 221
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Index | p. 235
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Foster, Michael K.
1992.
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A Life for Language: A Biographical Memoir of Leonard Bloomfield. Studies in the History of the Language Sciences
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Hockett, Charles F.
Kess, Joseph F.
1991.
A Life for Language: A biographical sketch of Leonard Bloomfield. By Robert A. Hall, Jr.. Historiographia Linguistica 18:1 ► pp. 205 ff.
Murray, Stephen O.
Murray, Stephen O.
1992. ROBERT A. HALL, JR. A Life for Language: A Biographical Memoir of Leonard Bloomfield.. <i>WORD</i> 43:1 ► pp. 138 ff.
Pike, Kenneth L.
Stanlaw, James
2020. Bloomfield, Leonard. In The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, ► pp. 1 ff.
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2021. Bibliography of writings by E. F. Konrad Koerner. Historiographia Linguistica 48:2-3 ► pp. 152 ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General