This is a fac simile edition of Bloomfield's An Introduction to the Study of Language (New York 1914), with an introductory article by Joseph S. Kess.

The book includes appendices explaining the methodology used, an extensive bibliography, and an index.

It is in these chapters that the reader can get right away from the mechanics of language and follow the play of human mind. The book is documented with notes, bibliography, table of phonetic symbols and index.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

First published in Great Britain in 1935, this Routledge Revival reissues one of the most influential works ever published in the field of linguistics.