ADVOCATE for BLOOMFIELD,
who did NOT COMPARE
ALGONQUIN with OLD NORSE
The renowned American linguist Leonard Bloomfield, who is the one who first showed that the methods of historical-comparative linguistics work for establishing language families when the only evidence available are modern languages. He did so by working out the Algonquian language family (the article was published in 1946). Prof. Bloomfield was trained as a Germanist. If there had been anything to note about the relationship between anything Germanic and anything Algonquian, Bloomfield would have noted it. He didn't. (Dr. Richard Rhodes, 2004)
