A hundred years of conceptual rigor in grammar: Re-reading Bloomfield (1926)

Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949)

Whereas the Linguistic Society of America celebrated its centennial in 2024, with the first issue of its journal “Language” appearing in 1925, it was in September 1926 (exactly a century ago) that the most ambitious early paper appeared: Leonard Bloomfield’s “A set of postulates for the science of language”.

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