Bernard Bloch (linguist)

Source: == Contributions to the Linguistic Society of America ==

Bloch was president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1953. He was Editor of the society's publication, Language, from 1940 until his death. ==Notable students==

• Floyd Lounsbury • Wallace Chafe • John Robert Ross (research assistant) • Samuel Martin ==Personal life==

His father, Albert Bloch, was the only American member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group of early 20th-century European modernist painters. His brother was the film writer Walter Bloch, who also wrote under the name, Walter Black. == Selected publications ==

• Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada: Section I. Linguistic Atlas of New England, Vol.1, Maps (with Hans Kurath, Miles L. Hanley, Marcus L. Hansen, Guy S. Lowman, Jr.), Brown University, Providence, 1939 • "Postvocalic r in New England speech, a study in American dialect geography." In Readings in American Dialectology, eds. Harold Byron Allen and Gary N. Underwood. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts., 1939 • Handbook of the Linguistic Geography of New England (with Hans Kurath, Marcus L. Hansen, Julia Bloch), Brown University, Providence, 1939 • Linguistic Atlas of New England, Vol.2, Maps (with Hans Kurath, etc.), Brown University, Providence, 1943 Phonology • "The Syllabic Phonemes of English" ~ "Language 17" (with G. L. Trager), 1941 • "Phonemic Overlapping" ~ "American Speech 16", 1941 • "A Set of Postulates for Phonemic Analysis" ~ "Language 24", 1948 Syntax • Outline of Linguistic Analysis (with G. L. Trager), Waverly Press, Baltimore, 1942 • Japanese translation: "言語分析の概要", 南雲堂, 1980 Analysis of Japanese • Spoken Japanese, 2 vols., Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1945, 1946 (with E. H. Jordan) • "Studies in Colloquial Japanese" • "Studies in Colloquial Japanese: I.Inflection" ~ "Journal of the American Oriental Society 66", 1946 • "II.Syntax" ~ "Language 22", 1946 • "III.Derivation of Inflected Words" ~ "Journal of the American Oriental Society 66" • "IV.Phonemics" ~ "Language 26", 1950 • Bernard Bloch on Japanese, Yale University Press, New Haven/London, 1970 (ed. R. A. Miller)Japanese translation: "ブロック日本語論考", 林栄一 監・訳, 研究社, 1975 • "Studies in Colloquial Japanese: I. Inflection" ~ "Journal of the American Oriental Society 66", 1946 • "II. Syntax" ~ "Language 22", 1946 • "III. Derivation of Inflected Words" ~ "Journal of the American Oriental Society 66" • "IV. Phonemics" ~ "Language 26", 1950 == References ==