American linguistics has been historically central to the emerge of the discipline generally as synchronic descriptive research on many languages received its greatest academic support and research funding in the United States. The growth of American linguistics began when European anthropoligical linguists arrived in North America to study and record native American languages before many of those languages dissapeared. The leading figure in this migration was Franz Boas, who first came to North America in the 1880's. Boas established American descriptivist linguistics and trained the leading American structural linguists, in particular Sapir and Bloomfield.
Bloomfield wrote a book, also called Language which profoundly changed the course of American linguistics foe the next 30 years. Bloomfield combined insights from anthropological linguistics with the the-pervasive views of behavioral psychology and with philosophical empiricism and positivism, to develop American research from the mid-1930's to the mid 1960's.
About Bloomfield
About Franz Boas
About Bloomfield
About Franz Boas
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