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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Bloomfield led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and '40s, insisting on scientific rigor and formal procedures for analyzing linguistic data. His 1933 textbook Language laid out a comprehensive system that made him the father of American distributionalism. He worked across Indo-European historical linguistics, Austronesian languages, and the Algonquian family, leaving a methodical imprint on each. By the late 1950s and 1960s, his influence faded as Noam Chomsky's generative grammar rose to dominance. He died April 18, 1949, sixteen years before the full eclipse.