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Edward Sapir (/ s ə ˈ p ɪər /; January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States.
Edward Sapir, one of the foremost American linguists and anthropologists, known for his contributions to the study of North American Indian languages. His publications included Language (1921) and a collection of essays, Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture, and Personality (1949).
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Edward Sapir was a linguist and anthropologist who worked with Franz Boas and studied many languages in North America. He was a professor at Yale and a member of the International Phonological Association.
Jun 27, 2018 · Edward Sapir (1884-1939) was a linguistic anthropologist, a cultural anthropologist, and a poet. He studied the languages and cultures of American Indians, developed formal descriptive linguistics, and influenced the fields of anthropology and linguistics.
Jan 11, 2024 · A comprehensive overview of the life and work of Edward Sapir, a pioneer of American linguistics and anthropology. Learn about his contributions to language studies, culture and personality, and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.
The only professionally trained linguist among Boas's students, and gifted with intuitive insight into grammatical patterning and historical relationships of linguistic families, Sapir contributed seminally to general linguistic theory, Amerindian linguistics, and Indo-European linguistics.
Edward Sapir was born in Lauenburg, Western Pomerania, now Lebork, Poland. He came from a family of Lithuanian Jews who emigrated first to England and then to the United States by 1889, finally coming to rest five years later on the Lower East side of New York City, when Sapir was ten.
