Between 1919 and 1930, Leonard Bloomfield corresponded with the anthropologist Truman Michelson (1879–1938) concerning Algonquian linguistics, and between 1924 and 1925 with Edward Sapir (1884–1939), with regard to American Indian languages, linguistic theory, and Bloomfield’s appointment as field-worker for the Canadian Bureau of Mines. The surviving letters are enumerated and discussed, and non-technical portions of them are reproduced, for the light which they shed on three of Bloomfield’s professional concerns: his work in Algonquian; his move from Illinois to Ohio State in 1921 ; and the planning and founding of the Linguistic Society of America in 1924–25. They also afford a few glimpses of his (in general little known) personal life and attitudes.
The following alphabetical list includes books, articles, and some of the people referred to in the foregoing (insofar as they are not already adequately identified), together with expansions of abbreviations and explanations of a few possibly puzzling terms. For people, birth and death dates are given when known, with references to sources of further information.
, Journal of the American Anthropological Association and affiliated societies.
Alford, Clarence Walworth (1868–1928), American historian, at the University of Illinois 1897–1920; editor of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review 1914–1923.
, see Sapir.
C. F. Hockett, edited byC. F. Hockett. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1970.
American Philological AssociationAPA = American Philological Association.
Baraga, Frederic. Materials on Ojibwa, published in 1870s and 1880s.
Bloomfield, Leonard (1887–1949). First German Book. Columbus: R.G. Adams & Co., 1923.
Bloomfield, Leonard (1887–1949). Language. New York: Holt, 1933.
Bloomfield, Leonard (1887–1949). The Menomini Language. Edited by C. F. Hockett. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1962.
Bloomfield, Leonard (1887–1949). “Notes on the Fox Language,” IJAL 3.219–332 (1925), 4.181–219 (1927).
Bloomfield, Leonard (1887–1949). “On the Sound System of Central Algonquian,” Language 1.130–156 (1925).
Boas, Franz (1858–1942; Lg 19.198, 1942; AA 43:3 part 2, 1943; PoL 2.122–39).
Bolling, George Melville (1871–1963; Lg 40.329–36, 1964).
Collitz, Hermann (1955–1935; Lg 11.286–7, 1935; PoL 2.74–77).
Cuoq, Jean-André. Materials on Algonquin (Ojibwa dialect), published in 1890s.
Finck, Franz Nikolaus (1867–1910; PoL 2.278–83). Lehrbuch des Dialekts der deutschen Zigeuner. Marburg, W.G. Elwert, 1903.
Finck, Franz Nikolaus (1867–1910; PoL 2.278–83). Die Sprachstämme des Erdkreises. Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1909.
Hoffman, Walter James (1846–1899; AA 2.187–88, 1900). The Menominee. Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report no. 14, 1896.
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Jespersen, Jens Otto Harry (1860–1943; PoL 2.148–73).
Jones, William (?-1909; AA 11.137–39, 1909). Of Fox Indian extraction. Trained by Boas; collected extensive Fox and Ojibwa material, mostly edited for posthumous publication by Michelson.
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Lacombe, Albert. Materials on Cree published in 1870s.
Laufer, Berthold (1874–1934; Lg 10.387–8, 1934; AA 38.101–11, 1936).
Meillet, see Meillet.
Lawe, Jerome. A Menominee, Bloomfield’s most reliable guide in the language.
Leskien, August (1840–1915; PoL 1.469–73).
, Journal of the Linguistic Society of America.
Meillet, Antoine (1866–1936; PoL 2.201–49).
Meillet, Antoine and Marcel Cohen. Les langues du mondeParis: Hachette, 1924.
Menominee, Menomini. Bloomfield uses the first spelling in 1919, then shifts to the second, which is retained in all his publications. In the early 1970s it was determined that the Menominee themselves prefer the first, which is therefore now being restored in learned material.
Michelson, Truman (1879–1938; Lg 14.314, 1938; AA 41.281–85, 1939). The Owl Sacred Pack of the Fox Indians. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 72 (1921), Washington, D.C.
Modern Language AssociationMLA = Modern Language Association.
Morris, Mrs Alice Vanderbilt (1874-?), active in the international language movement in the 1920s.
Oldfather, William Abbott (1880–1945), in Department of Classics at the University of Illinois for many years; on editorial committee of U. of I. Studies in Language and Literature when Bloomfield’s Tagalog materials were published in 1917.
Michelson, see Michelson.
Primitive Central AlgonquianPCA = Primitive Central Algonquian (proto replaced primitive as the English equivalent of German Ur- only in the mid 1930s).
Thomas A. SebeokPoL = Thomas A. Sebeok, ed., Portraits of Linguists. 2v. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1966.
Prokosch, Eduard (1876–1938; Lg 14.310–13, 1938).
Sapir, Edward (1884–1939; Lg 15.132–5, 1939; AA 41.465–77, 1939; PoL 2.489–92). “The Grammarian and his Language,” American Mercury 1:2.149–55 (1924).
Sapir, Edward (1884–1939; Lg 15.132–5, 1939; AA 41.465–77, 1939; PoL 2.489–92). “Sound Patterns in Language,” Language 1.137–51 (1925).
Sapir, Edward (1884–1939; Lg 15.132–5, 1939; AA 41.465–77, 1939; PoL 2.489–92). The Southern Paiute Language. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 65 (1930).
Satterlee, John V. (?-c1927). A Menominee, source of much of the information published by Skinner and of many of the texts taken down by Bloomfield.
Saussure, Ferdinand de (1857–1913; PoL 2.87–110). Cours de linguistique générale. Constructed posthumously from class notes by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye. Paris & Lausanne, Payot, 1916; 2d ed. 1922.
Skinner, Alanson Buck (1885–1925; AA 28.275–86, 1926). Various ethnographic studies of the Menominee and of other Central Algonquian and northern Siouan peoples, published 1913–1920 mainly in Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History and in Indian Notes and Monographs of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.
Southern PaiuteSapir, see Sapir.
Streitberg, Wilhelm (1864–1925; PoL 2.182–87).
Streitberg volume = J. Friedrich and others, Stand und Aufgaben der Sprachwissenschaft; Festschrift für Wilhelm Streitberg. Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1924.
Sturtevant, Edgar Howard (1875–1952; Lg 28.417–34, 1952; PoL 2.365–84).
Wackernagel, Jacob (1852–1938; PoL 2.52–55).
Weiss, Albert Paul (1879–1931; Lg 7.219–21, 1931).