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post-Bloomˈfieldian, a. and n. Linguistics.
[f. post- B. 1 b + the name Bloomfield (see below) + -ian.]
A. adj. Subsequent to the work of the American linguist Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949), freq. applied spec. to American structural linguistics in the 1950s.
B. n. An American structuralist.
[1949J. R. Firth in Archivum Linguisticum I. 110 Slav linguistics..are certainly post-Saussurean and showing signs even in America of becoming post-Bloomfield.] 1961F. W. Householder in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics 16/1 It would seem to a naive observer that the question ‘what is the grammar for?’ is an obvious one. Nevertheless, until recent years, no serious attempt to answer it seems to have been made by post-Bloomfieldian linguists. 1963F. G. Lounsbury in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 63 The post-Bloomfieldian dogma in American linguistics has long upheld the desideratum of exclusion of semantic considerations from linguistics. 1965Foundations of Lang. I. 92 It remains quite clear that post-Bloomfieldian linguistics was preoccupied with accounting for the corpus of speech-utterances. 1966A. A. Hill Promises & Limitations Newest Type Gram. Anal. 11 Post-Bloomfieldian structuralists produced rather remarkably few grammars. 1970Jrnl. Linguistics VI. ii. 287 Structuralist phonemics of the so-called Post-Bloomfieldians, for instance, is only a set of practical procedures. 1970G. C. Lepschy Survey Structural Linguistics 11 ‘Structural linguistics’ in a more limited sense (the post-Bloomfieldians). 1971D. Crystal Linguistics iv. 208 The term ‘structuralism’ was often used, in fact, in a narrow sense to refer to the kind of emphases which characterized post-Bloomfieldian linguistics (in a broad sense, of course, all linguistics is structural). |