Bernard Bloch (linguist)

For the French actor, see Bernard Bloch (actor).

Bernard Bloch, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., (1907, New York City, NY – 1965) was an American linguist. He is one of the post-Bloomfieldian linguists. He taught at Brown University and Yale University. His father, Albert Bloch, was the only American represented with Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group of early 20th-century European modernists.

Literary works

• helped editing of the "Linguistic Atlas of New England", Providence, RI, (ed.)Hans Kurath, 1933–1939
• editor of the "Language" (Linguistic Society of America)
• "Provocalistic r in New England Speech: A Study in American Dialect Geography", Actes du quatrieme Congres International de Linguistes, 1936, Einar Munksgaard, Copenhague, 1938
• 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
• 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
• "The Syllabic Phonemes of English" ~ "Language 17" (with G. L. Trager), 1941
• "Phonemic Overlapping" ~ "American Speech 16", 1941
• 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
• "A Set of Postulates for Phonemic Analysis" ~ "Language 24", 1948
• 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

References

• 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