Bernard Bloch

Bernard Bloch (18 June 1907, New York City, New York – 26 November 1965, New Haven, Connecticut) was an American linguist. He taught at Brown University and was Professor of Linguistics at Yale University.

Career 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