Summer Institute of Linguistics
linguistics school
Also known as: SIL
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influence on American structuralism
- In linguistics: Semantics
…American Bible Society and the Summer Institute of Linguistics, a group of Protestant missionary linguists. Because their principal aim is to produce translations of the Bible, they have necessarily been concerned with meaning as well as with grammar and phonology. This has tempered the otherwise fairly orthodox Bloomfieldian approach characteristic…
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