Edward Sapir [Pronunciation: suh PEER], 1884-1939, American anthropologist-linguist; a leader in
American [structural linguistics]
?; author of
Language : An Introduction to the Study of Speech (
ISBN 0156482339 (
amazon.com,
search)); Born in
[Lauenberg Germany]. Pupil of Boas
?, teacher of Whorf
?.
See Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis