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Bloomfieldian, n. and a.|ˌbluːmˈfiːldɪən|
[f. the name of Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949), American linguist + -ian.]
A. n. An adherent of the linguistic theories of Bloomfield.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bloomfield or his theories. Cf. post-Bloomfieldian a. and n.
1946G. L. Trager in Studies in Philol. XLIII. 461 Bloomfield's contributions to all kinds of linguistics have been so great that all of us linguists are basically Bloomfieldians. 1947C. F. Hockett in Language XXIII. 275 Blackbird..by the Bloomfieldian test is a minimum free form. 1953A. Martinet in A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. Today 577/1 The Bloomfieldians' main concern with analysis contrasts with the constant emphasis placed by other schools on the structural nature of language. 1963J. T. Waterman Perspectives in Linguistics 95 Some people maintain that the ‘Bloomfieldians’ deny the importance of meaning. 1975Amer. Speech 1972 XLVII. 244 There is a logic that claims the ancient Chinese philologists were gulity of ‘underanalysis’—that is, settling for recurrent pieces that were too large. If the logic is correct, then exactly the same logic applies to Bloomfieldian phonemes. 1977Word 1972 XXVIII. 288 For a Bloomfieldian, the model must be general. 1980Amer. Speech 1976 LI. 255 The reader must have a thorough familiarity with a number of models of linguistic structure, including Bloomfieldian and neo-Bloomfieldian structuralism. |