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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817611803321

Autore

Hall Robert A (Robert Anderson), <1911-1997.>

Titolo

A life for language : a biographical memoir of Leonard Bloomfield / / Robert A. Hall, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990

ISBN

1-283-31352-9

9786613313522

90-272-7807-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (139 p.)

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences, , 0304-0720 ; ; v. 55

Disciplina

410/.92

B

Soggetti

Linguists - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

A LIFE FOR LANGUAGE A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF LEONARD BLOOMFIELD; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1. THE EARLY YEARS (1887-1909); CHAPTER 2. CINCINNATI AND ILLINOIS (1909-1921); CHAPTER 3. OHIO STATE (1921-1927); CHAPTER 4. CHICAGO (1927-1940); CHAPTER 5. YALE (1940-1949); CHAPTER 6. POSTHUMOUS FORTUNE; NOTES TO THE BIOGRAPHY; REFERENCES FOR NOTES; A NEW LEONARD BLOOMFIELD BIBLIOGRAPHY (1909-1985); INDEX OF BIOGRAPHICAL NAMES; INDEX OF SUBJECTS, TERMS, AND LANGUAGES

Sommario/riassunto

Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) was one of the greatest linguists of the twentieth century. He devoted his entire life to a thorough-going study of language, its structure and its use, summed up in masterly fashion in his book Language (1933). After his premature death at the age of 62, his work was at first acclaimed as an exemplary application of the scientific method to linguistics, but then fell into unjustified neglect. Now that the centenary of his birth has passed, the time has come for the story of Bloomfield's life and work to be recounted in a biography. Accordingly, basing his