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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonard Bloomfield has received more than 405,825 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Leonard Bloomfield is the 47th most popular linguist (down from 43rd in 2019), the 1,967th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,842nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Linguist.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Leonard Bloomfield ranks 47 out of 214. Before him are Vilhelm Thomsen, Bedřich Hrozný, Friedrich August Wolf, August Leskien, Karl Lachmann, and Charles Bally. After him are Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Joseph Greenberg, Hugo Schuchardt, Hermann Paul, Vatroslav Jagić, and Hesychius of Alexandria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Leonard Bloomfield ranks 77. Before him are René Spitz, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, Tetsu Katayama, Vasily Chapayev, George, Crown Prince of Serbia, and Avery Brundage. After him are Hugo Steinhaus, Simko Shikak, Paul Wittgenstein, Korechika Anami, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay. Among people deceased in 1949, Leonard Bloomfield ranks 45. Before him are Ulrich Salchow, Joaquín Turina, Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, Harry Stack Sullivan, Yoshijirō Umezu, and André-Louis Debierne. After him are Maurice Blondel, Hanns Albin Rauter, Prince Harald of Denmark, Hans Pfitzner, Vítězslav Novák, and Vasily Degtyaryov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leonard Bloomfield ranks 1,967 out of 20,380. Before him are Isaac Hayes (1942), John Frederick Kensett (1816), Henry Molaison (1926), Tucker Carlson (1969), Neilia Hunter Biden (1942), and Pontiac (1714). After him are Clarissa Pinkola Estés (1945), Lillian Asplund (1906), Lucille Ball (1911), Natalie Clifford Barney (1876), David Crosby (1941), and Michael Phelps (1985).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Leonard Bloomfield ranks 5. Before him are Noam Chomsky (1928), William James Sidis (1898), Noah Webster (1758), and Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897). After him are Joseph Greenberg (1915), George Lakoff (1941), Joshua Fishman (1926), William Labov (1927), Morris Swadesh (1909), Stephen Krashen (1941), and George Kingsley Zipf (1902).

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