Download or read book A Leonard Bloomfield Anthology written by Leonard Bloomfield and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987-07-27 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the centenary year of Leonard Bloomfield's birth, this abridgment makes available a representative selection of the writings of this central figure in the history of linguistics. "Hockett has achieved his purpose—to reveal Bloomfield's way of working, the general principles that guided his work, and last, but by no means least, to indicate how Bloomfield's interests and attitudes changed with the passing years."—Harry Hoijer, Language