Leonard Bloomfield
Born in 1887, Bloomfield studied Germanic languages at Harvard (1906), Wisconsin (1908), Chicago (Ph.D 1909), Leipzig (1913), and the University of Göttingen (1914). He taught at Cincinnati, Ohio State, the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago (1921-1928).
In 1940, Bloomfield became Sterling Professor of Linguistics at Yale, where he remained until his death in 1949. Establishing the field of American structural linguistics, Bloomfield was one of the most influential linguists of the Twentieth Century. His students included Bernard Bloch, Zellig Harris, and Charles Hockett.
Over his career, Bloomfield expanded his scholarship from Germanic languages to the scientific study of language in general. He published linguistic grammars of Tagalog (1917), Fox (1924) and Menomini (1928), as well as Dutch and Russian, and produced a seminal work on American English Vocalic Phonology (1935). Bloomfield pioneered study of the Algonquian language family, and was the first to attempt to reconstruct Proto-Algonquian.
Bloomfield was influential in the foundation of the Linguistic Society of America, and served as president of the Society in 1935.
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