Benjamin Lee Whorf (/hwɔːrf/; April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer best known for proposing the Sapir–Whorf...
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Linguistic relativity (redirect from SapirWhorfHypothesis)
the term Sapir–Whorf hypothesis is sometimes considered a misnomer for several reasons. Edward Sapir (1884-1939) and Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) never...
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Whorf is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941), American linguist Richard Whorf (1906–1966), American film...
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ISBN 9781139461092 Benjamin Whorf, Linguistics as an exact science. In Language, thought and reality: Selected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf. Edited by J.B...
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Hopi time controversy (section Benjamin Lee Whorf)
of time. The debate originated in the 1940s when American linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf argued that the Hopi conceptualized time differently from the Standard...
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1939 by American linguist Benjamin Whorf to group the modern Indo-European languages of Europe with shared common features. Whorf argued that the SAE languages...
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Benjamin Whorf identifies four varieties (dialects) of Hopi: First Mesa (or Whorf's Polacca) Mishongnovi (or Whorf's Toreva) Shipaulovi (or Whorf's Sipaulovi)...
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Massachusetts to Harry and Sarah (née Lee) Whorf. His older brother was linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf. Whorf began his acting career on the Boston stage...
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English. Oligosynthetic languages are a theoretical notion created by Benjamin Whorf. Such languages would be functionally synthetic, but make use of a very...
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introduced in 1939 by Benjamin Whorf to group the modern Indo-European languages of Europe which shared common features. Whorf argued that these languages...
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John Whorf (1903–1959) was an American realist artist who is best known for his watercolors. From his first exhibition in 1923 until the last in 1958...
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of many American linguists and anthropologists, such as Franz Boas, Benjamin Whorf, and Leonard Bloomfield. When the American authorities considered "repatriating"...
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be included within the Penutian grouping: Macro-Penutian hypothesis (Benjamin Whorf) Or have produced hypotheses of relationships between Penutian and other...
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understanding of most of the rest long eluded scholars. In the 1930s, Benjamin Whorf wrote a number of published and unpublished essays, proposing to identify...
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hypothesis (more commonly known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis), developed by linguists Edward Sapir or Benjamin Whorf a century later. The reception of Humboldt's...
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of a particular sex: widow/widower, postman/postwoman etc. Linguist Benjamin Whorf described grammatical gender in English as a covert grammatical category...
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perhaps only a few hundred, combine as in polysynthetic languages. Benjamin Whorf categorized Nahuatl and Blackfoot as oligosynthetic, but most linguists...
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Kath Weston Douglas R. White Isobel Mary White Leslie White Tim White Benjamin Whorf Unni Wikan Clark Wissler Eric Wolf Alvin Wolfe Sol Worth Nur Yalman...
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transcription delimiters. Whorf's law is a sound law in Uto-Aztecan linguistics proposed by the linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf. It explains the origin in...
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artist in Hingham. Whorf is the nephew of linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf and nephew of actor and television director Richard Whorf. Whorf graduated from Provincetown...
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influential linguists such as Edward Sapir, George P. Murdock, and Benjamin Whorf. Hockett's dissertation was based on his fieldwork in Potawatomi; his...
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Irving Langmuir) Salem number – Raphaël Salem Sapir–Whorf hypothesis – Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf Sasakian manifold, metric – Shigeo Sasaki Say's law...
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Benjamin Wallace (circus owner) (1847–1921), American circus owner Benjamin Wallace (writer), American author and magazine writer Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941)...
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Cryptotype or covert categories of a language is a concept coined by Benjamin Lee Whorf which describes semantic or syntactic features that do not have a...
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active in the first half of the 20th century include Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf. Noam Chomsky is an American linguist who is often described as the...
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combat discrimination.: 60 Edward Sapir, with his student Benjamin Whorf, developed the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and contributed to the discussions of how language...
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but it was not until 1937 that supporting evidence was published by Benjamin Lee Whorf and G. L. Trager. Their proposal included some 67 proposed cognates...
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school of anthropology. His students included linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf. Leonard Bloomfield, on the other hand, traveled to Germany to attend...
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impossible in the absence of language; and social scientists influenced by Benjamin Whorf have believed that the natural languages that people grow up speaking...
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anthropologist Franz Boas and was particularly promoted by his contemporary, Benjamin Lee Whorf, whose name is connected with the hypothesis. The idea is commonly...
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