A Life for Language: A biographical memoir of Leonard Bloomfield
Robert A. Hall, Jr.
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 55] 1990. x, 129 pp.
Robert A. Hall, Jr.
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert A. Hall, Jr. plays a role.
Titles
Subjects History of linguistics
Linguistics and Pseudo-Linguistics
Robert A. Hall, Jr.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 55] 1987. vii, 147 pp.
Subjects History of linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Leonard Bloomfield: Essays on his life & work
Edited by Robert A. Hall, Jr.
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 47] 1987. x, 237 pp.
Subjects History of linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Proto-Romance Morphology: Comparative Romance Grammar, vol. III
Robert A. Hall, Jr.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 30] 1984. xii, 304 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Romance linguistics
Articles
1999 38. Narrative Cohesion in the Kensington Runic Text The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner, Embleton, Sheila, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 255 ff.
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1994 Milt Cowan, Enabler in Mid-20th century linguistics: A professional memoir Historiographia Linguistica 21:3, pp. 453–476
Miscellaneous
1991 Layers of Linguistics First Person Singular II: Autobiographies by North American scholars in the language sciences, Koerner, E.F.K. † (ed.), pp. 167 ff.
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1991 165 Broadway – A crucial node in American Structural Linguistics Historiographia Linguistica 18:1, pp. 153–166
During the Second World War, the United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) provided language teaching manuals and dictionaries for military and civilian use. From 1 July 1943 through 30 June 1945, this work was concentrated at an office which was located at 165 Broadway, New York City, and which… read more | Article
1987 Bloomfield the Man Leonard Bloomfield: Essays on his life & work, Hall, Jr., Robert A. (ed.), pp. 61 ff.
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1987 Bloomfield and semantics Historiographia Linguistica 14:1/2, pp. 155–160
Bloomfield’s position with regard to meaning and its importance in human use of language has been persistently misinterpreted. From a Wundtian, mentalistic psychology in his 1914 Introduction, he passed to a Weissian, non-mentalistic approach, as a result of which he considered it impossible to… read more | Article
1987 Bloomfield the Man Historiographia Linguistica 14:1/2, pp. 61–70
The wide-spread conception of Bloomfield as a cold, unfeeling person, devoted only to a naïve scientism, is discussed and refuted. The very intensity of his feelings led him to repress them and to give vent to them only indirectly, often which quiet but bitter wit and sarcasm. He consequently… read more | Article
1987 Bloomfield and Semantics Leonard Bloomfield: Essays on his life & work, Hall, Jr., Robert A. (ed.), pp. 155 ff.
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1987 A new Leonard Bloomfield Bibliography Historiographia Linguistica 14:1/2, pp. 221–233
Miscellaneous
1987 A New Leonard Bloomfield Bibliography Leonard Bloomfield: Essays on his life & work, Hall, Jr., Robert A. (ed.), pp. 221 ff.
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1986 Toward an Understanding of Language: Charles Carpenter Fries in Perspective. Edited by Peter Howard Fries, in collaboration with Nancy M. Fries Historiographia Linguistica 13:1, pp. 98–103
Review
1986 Review of Freddi (1983): L’Italia plurilingue Language Problems and Language Planning 10:3, pp. 300–303
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1986 Review of Hancock (1985): Diversity and Development in English-Related Creoles Language Problems and Language Planning 10:1, pp. 81–84
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1986 19th-Century Italian: Manzonian or De Amicisian The History of Linguistics in Italy, Ramat, Paolo, Hans-Josef Niederehe and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 227 ff.
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1985 Review of Andersen (1983): Pidginization and Creolization as Language Acquisition Language Problems and Language Planning 9:1, pp. 37–40
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1985 Innate capacity, know-how and use in language Linguistics and Philosophy: Festschrift for Rulon S. Wells, Makkai, Adam and Alan K. Melby (eds.), pp. 3–9
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1985 Meaning and the Idiolect: The Idioseme Scientific and Humanistic Dimensions of Language: Festschrift for Robert Lado, Jankowsky, Kurt R. (ed.), pp. 353 ff.
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1984 Review of Krüger (1979): Zum Fachwortschatz des frühen deutschen Eisenbahnwesens (ca. 1800–1860) – Terminologische Untersuchungen und Wörterbuch Language Problems and Language Planning 8:1, pp. 100–102
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1983 An Introduction to the Study of Language. By Leonard Bloomfield Historiographia Linguistica 10:3, pp. 320–324
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The novelist Edmondo de Amicis (1846–1908) was an important figure in the discussions of standard literary Italian at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. In his influential book L’idioma gentile (1905), he advocated a compromise between two extreme positions, pro- and… read more | Article
1980 The structure of italian newspaper headlines Italic and Romance: Linguistic studies in honor of Ernst Pulgram, Izzo, Herbert J. (ed.), pp. 157 ff.
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1980 Review of Laura & Lepschy (1977): The Italian Language Today Language Problems and Language Planning 4:1, pp. 84–86
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1979 Studi antiquari e lessicografia nel Seicento inglese. By Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani Historiographia Linguistica 6:3, pp. 401–403
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1979 Adler, Max K. Pidgins, creoles and lingua francas. A socio-linguistic study Language Problems and Language Planning 3:2, pp. 124–126
La kreolistiko igis satata aspekto de la lingvopolitiko, parte pro interesigo pri la ebla pigina deveno de la usona 'nigrula angla' lingvo. Rezulte, oni amase, sed ofte nepercepteble, atentis socilingvistikajn aspektojn de kreolistiko. Leginte la subtitolon de la verko de Adler, do, oni bonvenigus… read more | Article
1979 Subjectless verbs and the primacy of the predicate in Romance and Latin Studies in Diachronic, Synchronic, and Typological Linguistics: Festschrift for Oswald Szemérenyi on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, Brogyanyi, Bela (ed.), pp. 317–323
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1978 Mario A. Pei (1901-1978) Language Problems and Language Planning 2:3, pp. 162–163
Mario A. Pei, emerita profesoro pri latinida filologio en la Universitato Columbia, Novjorko, mortis la 2-an de marto, 1978, je la ago de 77 jaroj. Li instruis ce Columbia de 1937 al 1970; antaü tio, ce la Novjorkurba Kolegio (1923 al 1937). Unue Pei dedicis sin al studo pri la vulgarlatina; lia… read more | Article