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Leonard Bloomfield

1887 - 1949

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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. He is considered to be the father of American distributionalism. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonard Bloomfield is the 13th most popular linguist (up from 47th in 2019), the 424th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,967th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Leonard Bloomfield ranks 13 out of 214. Before him are William James Sidis, Noah Webster, Mahmud al-Kashgari, Roman Jakobson, Mesrop Mashtots, and Rasmus Rask. After him are Franz Bopp, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Jost Gippert, August Schleicher, Georges Dumézil, and Kūkai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Leonard Bloomfield ranks 21. Before him are Arthur Rubinstein, Wilhelm Canaris, Jozef Tiso, Leopold Ružička, Juan Gris, and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. After him are James B. Sumner, Henry Moseley, Saint-John Perse, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Nadia Boulanger, and Georg Trakl. Among people deceased in 1949, Leonard Bloomfield ranks 7. Before him are Maurice Maeterlinck, Richard Strauss, Sigrid Undset, George Gurdjieff, Georgi Dimitrov, and Edward Thorndike. After him are Kim Jong-suk, Margaret Mitchell, Friedrich Bergius, Hassan al-Banna, James Ensor, and August Krogh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leonard Bloomfield ranks 424 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Greeley Abbot (1872), Shirley MacLaine (1934), Leonardo DiCaprio (1974), Barbara McClintock (1902), Ivanka Trump (1981), and Harvey Keitel (1939). After him are James Rainwater (1917), Henry Miller (1891), Robert Kiyosaki (1947), Michael Jordan (1963), Martin Sheen (1940), and Jack Lemmon (1925).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Leonard Bloomfield ranks 4. Before him are Noam Chomsky (1928), William James Sidis (1898), and Noah Webster (1758). After him are Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), Joseph Greenberg (1915), Joshua Fishman (1926), William Labov (1927), George Lakoff (1941), Morris Swadesh (1909), Stephen Krashen (1941), and George Kingsley Zipf (1902).

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