Bernard Bloch
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Bernard Bloch, B.A.
, M.A.
, Ph.D.
, (1907, New York City
, NY - 1965) was an American
linguist
.
He is one of the post-Bloomfieldian
linguists.
He taught at Brown University
and Yale University
.
Bernard Bloch, B.A.
Bachelor of Arts
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, M.A.
Master's degree
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, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
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, (1907, New York City
New York City
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, NY - 1965) was an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
linguist
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
.
He is one of the post-Bloomfieldian
Leonard Bloomfield
Leonard Bloomfield was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. His influential textbook Language, published in 1933, presented a comprehensive description of American structural linguistics...
linguists.
He taught at Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
and Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
.
Literary works
- helped editing of the "Linguistic Atlas of New EnglandNew EnglandNew England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut...
", ProvidenceProvidence, Rhode IslandProvidence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region...
, RIRhode IslandThe state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area...
, (ed.)Hans KurathHans KurathHans Kurath was an American linguist of Austrian origin. He was full professor for English and Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor...
, 1933–1939 - editor of the "LanguageLanguageLanguage may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...
" (Linguistic Society of AmericaLinguistic Society of AmericaThe Linguistic Society of America is a professional society for linguists. It was founded in 1924 to advance linguistics, the scientific study of human language. The LSA has over 5,000 individual members and welcomes linguists of all kinds. It works to advance the discipline and to communicate...
) - "Provocalistic rRR is the eighteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.-History:The original Semitic letter may have been inspired by an Egyptian hieroglyph for tp, "head". It was used for by Semites because in their language, the word for "head" was rêš . It developed into Greek Ρ and Latin R...
in New England Speech: A Study in American Dialect Geography", Actes du quatrieme Congres International de Linguistes, 1936, Einar Munksgaard, Copenhague, 1938 - Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada: Section I . Linguistic Atlas of New England, Vol.1, Maps (with Hans KurathHans KurathHans Kurath was an American linguist of Austrian origin. He was full professor for English and Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor...
, Miles L. Hanley, Marcus L. Hansen, Guy S. Lowman, Jr.), Brown University, Providence, 1939 - Handbook of the Linguistic Geography of New England (with Hans Kurath, Marcus L. Hansen, Julia Bloch), Brown University, Providence, 1939
- Linguistic Atlas of New England, Vol.2, Maps (with Hans Kurath, etc.), Brown University, Providence, 1943
- "The SyllabicSyllabicSyllabic may refer to:*Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, a family of abugidas used to write a number of Aboriginal Canadian languages.*Syllabary, writing system using symbols for syllables...
PhonemePhonemeIn a language or dialect, a phoneme is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances....
s of English" ~ "LanguageLanguageLanguage may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...
17" (with G. L. Trager), 1941 - "Phonemic OverlapOverlapOverlap may mean one of:* In music theory, overlap is a synonym for reinterpretation of a chord at the boundary of two musical phrases.* In railway signalling, an Overlap is the length of track beyond a stop signal that is proved to be clear of vehicles in the controls of the previous signal, as a...
ping" ~ "American SpeechAmerican SpeechAmerican Speech is a quarterly academic journal of the American Dialect Society, established in 1925 and published by the Duke University Press...
16", 1941 - Outline of Linguistic Analysis (with G. L. Trager), Waverly Press, Baltimore, 1942
- JapaneseJapanese languageis a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
translation: "言語分析の概要", 南雲堂, 1980
- Japanese
- "A Set of Postulates for Phonemic Analysis" ~ "Language 24", 1948
- Spoken Japanese, 2 vols., Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1945, 1946 (with E. H. JordanEleanor JordenEleanor Harz Jorden was an American linguistics scholar and an influential Japanese language educator and expert. Born Eleanor Harz, she married William Jorden, reporter and diplomat; the marriage ended in divorce....
)
- "Studies in Colloquial Japanese"
- "Studies in Colloquial Japanese: I.InflectionInflectionIn grammar, inflection or inflexion is the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, grammatical mood, grammatical voice, aspect, person, number, gender and case...
" ~ "Journal of the American Oriental SocietyAmerican Oriental SocietyThe American Oriental Society was chartered under the laws of Massachusetts on September 7, 1842. It is one of the oldest learned societies in America, and is the oldest devoted to a particular field of scholarship....
66", 1946 - "II.SyntaxSyntaxIn linguistics, syntax is the study of the principles and rules for constructing phrases and sentences in natural languages....
" ~ "Language 22", 1946 - "III.DerivationDerivationDerivation may refer to:* Derivation , a function on an algebra which generalizes certain features of the derivative operator* Derivation * Derivation in differential algebra, a unary function satisfying the Leibniz product law...
of Inflected WordsInflectionIn grammar, inflection or inflexion is the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, grammatical mood, grammatical voice, aspect, person, number, gender and case...
" ~ "Journal of the American Oriental Society 66" - "IV.Phonemics" ~ "Language 26", 1950
- "Studies in Colloquial Japanese: I.Inflection