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 and Benjamin Lee Whorf never...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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