Edward Sapir
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title:
Edward Sapir
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Edward Sapir 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. Sapir was born in German Pomerania, in what is now northern Poland. His family emigrated to the United States of America when he was a child. He studied Germanic linguistics at Columbia, where he came under the influence of Franz Boas, who inspired him to work on Native American languages. While finishing
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American linguist and anthropologist (1884–1939)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Sapir
date created:
2001-04-12T17:23:00Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T14:30:29Z
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