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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Leonard Bloomfield
Born: April 1, 1887
Died: April 18, 1949 (aged 62)
Bio: 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.
Known for:
- An Introduction to the Study of Language (1914)
- Language (1933)
- Tagalog texts with grammatical analysis
- Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach
- Sacred stories of the Sweet Grass Cree (1930)