Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Prefatory Remarks ix
4. I. Bloomfield's Personality
5. My Recollections of Leonard Bloomfield 3
6. The Small Mythologies of Leonard Bloomfield 15
7. The Whimsical Bloomfield 23
8. Letters from Bloomfield to Michelson and Sapir 39
9. Bloomfield the Man 61
10. II. Bloomfield's Theoretical Stance
11. Bloomfield and Historical Linguistics 73
12. The Influence of Pāṇini on Leonard Bloomfield 89
13. Bloomfield as Dialectologist 139
14. Bloomfield and Semantics 155
15. III. Bloomfield's Fields of Study
16. Bloomfield as an Indo-Europeanist 163
17. Bloomfield as an Austronesianist 173
18. Leonard Bloomfield's Descriptive and Comparative Studies of Algonquian 179
19. IV. Bibliography
20. A New Leonard Bloomfield Bibliography 221
21. Index 235