Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) was one of the greatest linguists of the twentieth century. He devoted his entire life to a thorough-going study of language, its structure and its use, summed up in masterly fashion in his book Language (1933). After his premature death at the age of 62, his work was… read more
The doctrines of transformational-generative grammar (as promulgated in 1957, with frequent later emendations) have on occasion been criticised, sometimes severely. Such criticism have, however, appeared mostly in article-form, and mostly in relatively inaccessible places. Discussions in bookform… read more
These essays were brought together to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949), one of the most outstanding and influential linguists of the twentieth century. The contributions have been grouped in three sections according to their relevance to his work,… read more
This volume deals with the reconstructed morphology of Proto-Romance. It is the third in a series by this author. The first volume (1974, Elsevier) deals with the external history of the Romance languages: the conditions under which they developed, were used, and (in some instances) went out of use. read more
During the Second World War, the United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) provided language teaching manuals and dictionaries for military and civilian use. From 1 July 1943 through 30 June 1945, this work was concentrated at an office which was located at 165 Broadway, New York City, and… read more
Bloomfield’s position with regard to meaning and its importance in human use of language has been persistently misinterpreted. From a Wundtian, mentalistic psychology in his 1914 Introduction, he passed to a Weissian, non-mentalistic approach, as a result of which he considered it impossible to… read more
The wide-spread conception of Bloomfield as a cold, unfeeling person, devoted only to a naïve scientism, is discussed and refuted. The very intensity of his feelings led him to repress them and to give vent to them only indirectly, often which quiet but bitter wit and sarcasm. He consequently… read more
The novelist Edmondo de Amicis (1846–1908) was an important figure in the discussions of standard literary Italian at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. In his influential book L’idioma gentile (1905), he advocated a compromise between two extreme positions, pro- and… read more
La kreolistiko igis satata aspekto de la lingvopolitiko, parte pro interesigo pri la ebla pigina deveno de la usona 'nigrula angla' lingvo. Rezulte, oni amase, sed ofte nepercepteble, atentis socilingvistikajn aspektojn de kreolistiko. Leginte la subtitolon de la verko de Adler, do, oni bonvenigus… read more
Mario A. Pei, emerita profesoro pri latinida filologio en la Universitato Columbia, Novjorko, mortis la 2-an de marto, 1978, je la ago de 77 jaroj. Li instruis ce Columbia de 1937 al 1970; antaü tio, ce la Novjorkurba Kolegio (1923 al 1937). Unue Pei dedicis sin al studo pri la vulgarlatina; lia… read more
