American
____________________
has
been
historically
central
to
the
emergence
of
the
discipline
generally
as
synchronic
____________________
research
of
many
____________________
received
its
greatest
academic
support
and
research
funding
in
the
United
States
.
The
growth
of
American
linguistics
began
when
____________________
anthropological
linguistics
arrived
in
North
____________________
to
study
and
record
native
-
American
languages
before
many
of
those
languages
dissapeared
.
The
landing
figure
in
this
migration
was
____________________
Boas
,
who
first
came
to
North
America
in
the
____________________
.
Boas
established
American
descrptivist
linguistics
and
trained
the
leading
American
structural
linguistics
,
in
particular
____________________
and
____________________
.