Edward Sapir

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anthropologist human linguist linguistic anthropologist university teacher

Edward Sapir was a pioneering American anthropologist-linguist whose work on language, culture, and cognition helped lay the foundations of modern linguistics and linguistic anthropology.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	anthropologist → human → linguist → linguistic anthropologist → university teacher →
academicDegree	PhD →
causeOfDeath	stroke →
child	J. David Sapir →
countryOfCitizenship	Canada → United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1884-01-26 →
dateOfDeath	1939-02-04 →
educatedAt	Columbia College → Columbia University →
employer	Bureau of American Ethnology → Canadian Geological Survey → University of Chicago → University of Pennsylvania → Yale University →
ethnicGroup	Jewish people →
familyName	Sapir →
fieldOfWork	American Indian languages → anthropology → ethnolinguistics → language typology → linguistic anthropology → linguistics → morphology → phonology →
givenName	Edward →
hasAcademicDiscipline	anthropology → linguistics →
influenced	Benjamin Lee Whorf → Dell Hymes → Morris Swadesh → Roman Jakobson →
influencedBy	Franz Boas →
knownFor	Sapir–Whorf hypothesis → foundational work in structural linguistics → pioneering linguistic anthropology →
languageSpoken	English → German → Yiddish →
movement	American structuralism → Boasian anthropology →
name	Edward Sapir →
notableWork	Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech → Nootka Texts → Southern Paiute: A Shoshonean Language → The Status of Linguistics as a Science → Time Perspective in Aboriginal American Culture: A Study in Method →
placeOfBirth	German Empire → Kingdom of Prussia → Lauenburg in Pommern →
placeOfDeath	New Haven, Connecticut →
positionHeld	professor of anthropology at University of Chicago → professor of anthropology at Yale University →
religion	secular Judaism →
residence	New Haven, Connecticut → New York City → Ottawa →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Florence Delson →
studied	Athabaskan languages → Native American languages → Nootka language → Southern Paiute language →
theory	language influences thought and perception →

Referenced by (13)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Franz Boas → Franz Boas → Wilhelm von Humboldt → Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues → Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues ("Benjamin Lee Whorf") →	influenced
American historical particularism → Boasian school of anthropology →	associatedWith
Yana language →	documentedBy
Edward Sapir ("Sapir") →	familyName
Ruth Benedict →	influencedBy
Boasian linguistics →	keyFigure
Edward Sapir →	name
Yuman ("linguist Edward Sapir") →	studiedBy