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To which historical linguistics did Bloomfield make significant contributions?
Indo-European historical linguistics
Sino-Tibetan historical linguistics
Ural-Altaic historical linguistics
Afro-Asiatic historical linguistics
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Bloomfield made substantial contributions to Indo-European historical linguistics, a field that studies the development and relationships among languages within the Indo-European language family. He focused on the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, the ancestral language of the Indo-European languages, and applied his structural linguistics approach to analyze language change and sound correspondences. His work provided a deeper understanding of the historical evolution and diversity of Indo-European languages.
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