Biography of the World's Greatest Linguists Leonard Bloomfield

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THE WORLD'S GREATEST LINGUISTS

LEONARD BLOOMFIELD (1887-1949)

Chicago-born Bloomfield's book Language "almost alone determined the course of linguistic science in the U.S.," according to one authority. Bloomfield believed a student should be able to speak a language before writing it. By practicing what he preached, he mastered a great number of the world's 2,796 languages.


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