Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist
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This first full-scale biography of Edward Sapir (1884-1939) does justice to the life and ideas of the most distinguished linguist of Boasian anthropology, who contributed substantially to the professionalization of linguistics as an independent discipline. Sapir was the first to apply comparative Indo-European methods to the study of American Indian languages, pursuing fieldwork on more than twenty of them. His theoretical work on the relationship...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803224370
ISBN13:9780803224377
Release Date:July 2010
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Length:520 Pages
Weight:1.53 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.4" x 8.3"
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