Bloomfield 1933

Bloomfield, Leonard. 1933.Language. Revised from 1914 edition. New York: Holt. 564 pages. (Fischer-Jorgensen 1975.) Location: Dallas SIL Library 410 B655l. Interest level: academic.

Is a classic work by a significant linguist of the twentieth century. Includes chapters on

• phonemes
• morphology
• syntax
• meaning, and
• written records.

Bloomfield and adherents wished to make linguistics an exact science, where the concepts are defined, and where it is illegitimate to proceed from hypotheses about what goes on in the speaker's mind. Bloomfield was influenced by behaviorism, and believed a scientific description should be physico-mechanistic. Should only use terms that are derivable by rigid definition from a set of everyday terms concerning physical happenings.

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