Fill in the Blanks Applied Linguistic and LinguisOnline version Complete the next paragraph. by Estephany Romo 1 Sapir languages descriptive Bloomfield 1880's America European Franz linguistics 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 .