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Author: Bloomfield, Leonard
ISBN:978-0-226-06067-5
Publication Date:Oct 1984
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $53.00
Book Description:

Perhaps the single most influential work of general linguistics published in this century, Leonard Bloomfield's Language is both a masterpiece of textbook writing and a classic of scholarship. Intended as an introduction to the field of linguistics, it revolutionized the field when it appeared in 1933 and became the major text of the American descriptivist school.

Book Details
Pages:580
Detailed Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):0.554 x 0.854 x 0.133 Inches
Book Weight:1.663 Pounds
Author Biography
Bloomfield, Leonard (Author)
Leonard Bloomfield, an American professor of Germanic languages, created the field of linguistics as a branch of science. In studying such non-Western languages as Tagalog, spoken in the Philippines, he realized the futility of trying to fit all languages into the format of Latin grammar in the common practice in his time.

Bloomfield went on to discover the principles of language itself. His book Language (1933) integrated the field of linguistics for the first time. He was one of the founders of the Linguistic Society of America, and he wrote an article for the first issue of its journal in which he explained the need for a society for the new discipline.

Bloomfield died in 1949.

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