Edward Sapir (/səˈpɪər/; January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important...

them. Although common, the term Sapir–Whorf hypothesis is sometimes considered a misnomer for several reasons. Edward Sapir (1884-1939) and Benjamin Lee...

conceptualize the world. Whorf saw this idea, named after him and his mentor Edward Sapir, as having implications similar to those of Einstein's principle of physical...

areas. The concept became part of linguistic typology with the work of Edward Sapir, who used it as one of his basic typological categories. Recently, Mark...

origin in a language spoken in Beringia, between the two continents. Edward Sapir originally constructed the term Na-Dene to refer to a combined family...

Canadian style of anthropology. Scholars include the linguist and Boasian Edward Sapir. Anthropology in France has a less clear genealogy than the British and...

Sapir is a surname (see Shapiro for etymology). Notable people with the surname include: André Sapir, Belgian economist Edward Sapir, American anthropologist...

Bradley, and both championed MacDowell's piano compositions. The linguist Edward Sapir was also among his students. MacDowell was often stressed in his position...

role in linguistics, as the background for a famous article by linguist Edward Sapir and his collaborator Tony Tillohash on the nature of the phoneme. The...

are in accordance to those developed by the ethnologist and linguist Edward Sapir, and used by the Canadian Museum of History. These people traditionally...

students were A. L. Kroeber, Alexander Goldenweiser, Ruth Benedict, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Zora Neale Hurston, and Gilberto Freyre. Boas was one...

Banning, California. Edward Sapir. 1930. Southern Paiute, a Shoshonean Language. Reprinted in 1992 in: The Collected Works of Edward Sapir, X, Southern Paiute...

master's degrees at the University of Chicago, studying under Edward Sapir, and then followed Sapir to Yale University where he completed a Ph.D. in 1933. Swadesh...

Sapir, Edward; Golla, Victor (2001). "Hupa Texts, with Notes and Lexicon". In Golla, Victor; O'Neill, Sean (eds.). Collected Works of Edward Sapir. Vol...

by Edward Sapir in which the author offers an introduction to his ideas about language. Haas, Mary R. (1976). Chafe, Wallace L (ed.). "Boas, Sapir, and...

referred to as "Algonquian-Ritwan" and "Wiyot-Yurok-Algonquian." When Edward Sapir proposed that the well-established Algonquian family was genetically...

Tsimshian, Nisg̱a’a, and Gitksan. The Tsimshianic languages were included by Edward Sapir in his Penutian hypothesis, which is currently not widely accepted, at...

picture of the Shoshonean group, while Edward Sapir proved the unity among Aztecan, "Sonoran", and "Shoshonean". Sapir's applications of the comparative method...

make up the bulk of material on this language. Hoijer was a student of Edward Sapir. Hoijer contributed greatly to the documentation of the Southern and...

by Edward Sapir. Around 1920 Sapir became convinced that Na-Dené was more closely related to Sino-Tibetan than to other American families. Edward Vadja's...

to language". Language, Culture, and Personality: Essays in Honor of Edward Sapir. Taylor, Walter (1948). A Study of Archeology. Memoir 69, American Anthropological...

worked for six weeks as language consultant with linguist Edward Sapir to document the language. Sapir gives her Takelma name as Gwísgwashãn (phonemically Kʷìskʷasá:n...

native Yana language, which was recorded and studied by the linguist Edward Sapir, who had previously done work on the northern dialects. These wax cylinders...

comparative philology at the University of Chicago. She studied under Edward Sapir, whom she would follow to Yale. She began a long career in linguistic...

the German-American linguist Edward Sapir in his graduate thesis, The Takelma Language of Southwestern Oregon (1912). Sapir’s grammar together with his Takelma...

J. David Sapir, son of Edward Sapir, is a linguist, anthropologist and photographer. He is Emeritus professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia...

had a short affair with the linguist Edward Sapir, a close friend of her instructor Ruth Benedict. However, Sapir's conservative stances about marriage...

ISBN 970-689-030-0. Edward Sapir. 1931. Southern Paiute Dictionary. Reprinted in 1992 in: The Collected Works of Edward Sapir, X, Southern Paiute and...

Tonkawa, Atakapa, and Maratino languages into a Coahuiltecan grouping. Edward Sapir (1920) accepted Swanton's proposal and grouped this hypothetical Coahuiltecan...

dialects died is not recorded. Yana is fairly well documented, mostly by Edward Sapir. The names Yana and Yahi are derived from ya "people" plus an obligatory...