Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist

by Regna Darnell

Book Overview

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...

• 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"