# Leonard Bloomfield (@leonard-bloomfield)

Leonard Bloomfield (April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949) was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. He is considered to be the father of American distributionalism.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Leonard Bloomfield's public record._

## Topics

- [Evidence and Limits](/@leonard-bloomfield/evidence-and-limits.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Documented Work](/@leonard-bloomfield/documented-work.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Field and Context](/@leonard-bloomfield/field-and-context.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://id.loc.gov/search/?q=Leonard%20Bloomfield&q=cs%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fid.loc.gov%2Fauthorities%2Fnames
- blog: https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=Leonard%20Bloomfield
- blog: https://www.si.edu/search?edan_q=Leonard%20Bloomfield

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "leonard-bloomfield", "question": "…"}`.