Leonard Bloomfield: Quick Facts


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Born April 1, 1887 • Chicago • Illinois
Died April 18, 1949 (aged 62) • New Haven • Connecticut
Notable Works “Language”
Subjects Of Study behaviourism • linguistics • structural linguistics • Algonquian languages • Austronesian languages • Indigenous languages of North America • Tagalog language • language

Edward Sapir and colleagues from the University of Chicago
Edward Sapir
American linguist
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Roman Jakobson
American linguist
Ferdinand de Saussure seated in a formal pose, wearing a dark suit with a vest and sporting a thick mustache, circa 1900.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist
Noam Chomsky wearing glasses and a dark sweater, looking slightly to the side during an interview.
Noam Chomsky
American linguist
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Kenneth L. Pike
American linguist
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Horatio Hale
American anthropologist
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Mario Pei
American linguist
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Sydney M. Lamb
American linguist
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Zellig S. Harris
American scholar
Kristeva, Julia
Julia Kristeva
French author
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Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian philosopher and literary critic
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Friedrich Müller
Austrian linguist
Sayce, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, c. 1920; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Archibald H. Sayce
British language scholar
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist
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John R. Firth
British linguist
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Michael Halliday
British linguist
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Eduard Hermann
German linguist
Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap
German-American philosopher