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Leonard Bloomfield

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Bernard Bloch
Bernard Bloch*
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Yale University
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Obituary
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Language , Volume 25 , Issue 2: Apr-June , June 1949 , pp. 87 - 98
Copyright
Copyright © 1949 Linguistic Society of America

References

1 See the obituary of Maurice Bloomfield by George M. Bolling in Lg. 4.214–7 (1928).

2 Personal communication from Mr. Grover Bloomfield of Milwaukee.

3 Lg. 14.311–2 (1938).

4 Lg. 14.312.

5 Weiss's chief work, A theoretical basis of human behavior (Columbus, Ohio, 1924; rev. ed. 1929), had a profound influence on Bloomfield. See also the shorter statement of Weiss's view in Lg. 1.52–7 (1925), and Bloomfield's obituary in Lg. 7.219–21 (1931).

6 Language 509. The whole last chapter of Language is an expression of this hope and a discussion of the special fields where it may be most directly realized.

7 Lg. 22.3 (1946).

8 Printed in Lg. 1.6–7 (1925).

9 Twenty-one years of the Linguistic Society, Lg. 22.1–3 (1946).

10 Chapters 5–8 on phonemics, and chapters 10–16 on grammar (pp. 74–138, 158–280).

11 A note on sound-change, Lg. 4.99–100 (1928).

12 Charles F. Hockett, Implications of Bloomfield's Algonquian studies, Lg. 24.117–31 (1948).

13 Lg. 22.2.

14 The following articles and reviews contain important general statements: A set of postulates for the science of language, Lg. 2.153–64 (1926); On recent work in linguistics, MPhil. 25.211–30 (1927); Linguistics as a science, Studies in Philology 27.553–7 (1930); review of Ries, Lg. 7.204–9 (1931); review of Herrmann, Lg. 8.220–33 (1932); review of Havers, Lg. 10.32–40 (1934); Language or ideas?, Lg. 12.89–95 (1936); review of Bentley, Lg. 12.137–41 (1936); Secondary and tertiary responses to language, Lg. 20.45–55 (1944); review of Bodmer, American Speech 19.211–3 (1944). See also his monograph, Linguistic aspects of science (Chicago, 1939).

15 Preface, p. vii.

16 In a review of Lokotsch, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der amerikanischen (indianischen) Wörter im Deutschen, MPhil. 24.489 (1927).

17 Lg. 20.55 (1944). Although this article (Secondary and tertiary responses to language) began as a jeu d'esprit, its latter half contains an admirable and wholly serious defense of the mechanistic position; see pp. 51–5 (omitting the long quotation).

18 Titles of books and monographs are in italics. The following abbreviations are used: AJP—American Journal of Philology; IJAL—International Journal of American Linguistics; JEGP—Journal of English and Germanic Philology; Lg.—Language; MPhil.—Modern Philology; MPhon.—Le Maître Phonétique; TAPA—Transactions of the American Philological Association. With a few minor exceptions, every item in this bibliography has been checked and verified by Julia Bloch.