adjective
LinguisticsSubsequent to the work of the American linguist Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949), specifically designating or relating to American structural linguistics in the 1950s.
noun
LinguisticsA follower or adherent of the American structuralist school of linguistics which developed in the 1950s.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in Fred Householder (b. 1913). From post- + Bloomfieldian.
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