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Bloomfieldian /ˈbluːmfiːldɪən /adjectiveRelating to or characteristic of the American linguist Leonard Bloomfield or his theories: linguistics in the Bloomfieldian traditions...- American linguistics was dominated by Bloomfieldian descriptivism.
- A good deal of linguistics, both in the Bloomfieldian and the Chomskyan traditions, has simply ignored semantics.
- I dare say that first-year linguistics courses are still basically Bloomfieldian in orientation.
nounA follower of the theories of the American linguist Leonard Bloomfield: the older generation of Bloomfieldians found themselves outnumbered...- Overnight, the older generation of Bloomfieldians found themselves outnumbered.
- Various Bloomfieldians continued to refine and experiment with this approach.
- Since the Bloomfieldian was not permitted to define the meaning of a word in terms of mental events, he was forced to refer to external situations to express the meaning of a phrase.
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