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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 380,269 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Leonard Bloomfield is the 43rd most popular linguist (down from 41st in 2019), the 1,843rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,812th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Leonard Bloomfield ranks 43 out of 161Before him are Bedřich Hrozný, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Vasily Radlov, André Martinet, Gabdulkhay Akhatov, and Vilhelm Thomsen. After him are George Lakoff, Joseph Greenberg, Charles Bally, Hesychius of Alexandria, Vatroslav Jagić, and Hermann Paul.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Leonard Bloomfield ranks 77Before him are Hugo Steinhaus, René Spitz, Marcus Garvey, Josef Čapek, Giovanni Gronchi, and Vasily Chapayev. After him are George, Crown Prince of Serbia, Sivananda Saraswati, Joseph Bech, Tetsu Katayama, Wilhelm Kube, and François Faber. Among people deceased in 1949, Leonard Bloomfield ranks 40Before him are Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Harry Stack Sullivan, Ulrich Salchow, Alice Bailey, Béla Balázs, and Nikola Zhekov. After him are Valentino Mazzola, Vasily Degtyaryov, Joaquín Turina, Yoshijirō Umezu, Maurice Blondel, and Otto Wächter.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leonard Bloomfield ranks 1,843 out of 18,182Before him are Kirsten Dunst (1982), Lily Tomlin (1939), Jan-Michael Vincent (1944), Tom Wolfe (1930), Barbara Bach (1947), and Steve Vai (1960). After him are Henry Hathaway (1898), Rick Riordan (1964), Theda Bara (1885), Leo McCarey (1898), Albert King (1923), and Scott McKenzie (1939).

Among LINGUISTS In United States

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