Leonard Bloomfield, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Leonard Bloomfield

American linguist

Date of Birth: 01-Apr-1887

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 18-Apr-1949

Profession: pedagogue, university teacher, linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Not to be confused with the English naturalist Leonard Blomefield (1800–1893)Leonard Bloomfield (April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949) was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s.
His influential textbook Language, published in 1933, 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. Bloomfield's approach to linguistics was characterized by its emphasis on the scientific basis of linguistics, adherence to behaviorism especially in his later work, and emphasis on formal procedures for the analysis of linguistic data.
The influence of Bloomfieldian structural linguistics declined in the late 1950s and 1960s as the theory of generative grammar developed by Noam Chomsky came to predominate.