Linguistics in the United States

The history of linguistics in the United States began to discover a greater understanding of humans and language.

The United States has long been known for its diverse collection of linguistic features and dialects that are spread across the country.

[2] Leonard Bloomfield (1878–1949), professor at the University of Chicago from 1927-1940, founded the Linguistic Society of America in 1924 as presented in the A History of the American Philological Association.

[3] He theorized on language from a biological standpoint, and referred to it as a cognitive ""module"" in the human brain.

[4] From the 1950s, American linguistic tradition began to diverge from the de Saussurian structuralism taught in European academia, notably with Noam Chomsky's "nativist" transformational grammar and successor theories, which during the 1970s "linguistics wars" gave rise to a wide variety of competing grammar frameworks.

An increasing number of LSA members are working in government fields and are using their expansive knowledge of linguistics to create products and technologies to be used by the general public.