Leonard Bloomfield died on 1949-04-18.

Leonard Bloomfield was born on 1887-04-01.

Elmore Leonard died on August 20, 2013, in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, USA of complications from a stroke.

The Bloomfield approach refers to the structuralist linguistic theory developed by American linguist Leonard Bloomfield in the early 20th century. It emphasizes the analysis of language structures and the study of phonetics, morphology, and syntax. Bloomfield's approach influenced the development of structural linguistics and the study of language typology.

Leonard Bloomfield made significant contributions to structural linguistics by introducing the idea of "taxonomic" or descriptive linguistics, which focused on the analysis of the formal structure of language. He also proposed the concept of "immediate constituent analysis" to study the hierarchical structures of sentences. Additionally, Bloomfield's work laid the foundation for the development of American structuralism in linguistics.