1910s to 1950s confusingly called "American structuralism" despite having not much in common with [[semiotic|structuralism]] in [[1857 Ferdinand de Saussure]]an sense but rather [[structural psychology]] from [[1832 Wilhelm Wundt]]: study [[anatomy]] of [[human language]] [[1924 Linguistic Society of America]] goal: to find [[symmetry|pattern]]s in language, treat a [[human language]] ([[diachronic|synchronic]]ally conceived) as a system: early research into [[syntax]], [[morphophonemic]] [[grammar rule]]s etc not to be confused with [[semiotic]] lots of interest in [[indigenous language of northern america|north american indigenous language]]s # sources [[Frans Boas]] [[Edward Sapir]] [[Leonard Bloomfield]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_linguistics