Download or read book Language written by Leonard Bloomfield and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1984-10-15 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the single most influential work of general linguistics published in this century, Leonard Bloomfield's Language is both a masterpiece of textbook writing and a classic of scholarship. Intended as an introduction to the field of linguistics, it revolutionized the field when it appeared in 1933 and became the major text of the American descriptivist school.