In 2012, Gilbert Lazard dismissed the Chomskyean approach as passé while applauding a return to Saussurrean structuralism as the only course by which linguistics can become more scientific.
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The award honors Leonard Bloomfield, the dominant figure in American structural linguistics in the 1930s through the 1950s and the major impetus behind the founding of the Linguistic Society, of which he was President in 1935.