Instead, it is thought that the civilised human mind is organised into binary branching structures, and advocates of this type of linguistics are identified from their convention of placing the Object into the Verb phrase; so structure is disconnected from meaning, in contrast to Saussurean structuralism.[4] The American school is alternatively called 'Bloomfieldian' – or 'post-Bloomfieldian', following the death of its leader Leonard Bloomfield in 1949.