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Document Details : Title: 'The study of the linguistic sciences is at present greatly neglected in this country' Subtitle: The Linguistic Society in America in the Making Author(s): SWIGGERS, Pierre Journal: Orbis Volume: 37 Date: 1994 Pages: 299-304 DOI: 10.2143/ORB.37.0.2012783 Abstract : The document published here is the earliest preserved testimony of the “prehistory” of the Linguistic Society of America. It is a typewritten letter, written on university stationery of Leonard Bloomfield’s German Department at Ohio State University, and sent out in January 1924. The letter is conserved in the Franz Boas Papers in the Library of the American Philosophical Society (B/B 61, correspondence Boas - Bloomfield, folder # 1); Bloomfield addressed it to Boas on January 18, 1924, together with an accompanying note. |
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