Linguística como ciência

by Edward Sapir, Joaquim Mattoso Câmara Jr. (Translator)

Coletânea de ensaios de Edward Sapir. Seleção, tradução e notas de Joaquim Mattoso Câmara Junior.

203 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1961

About the author

Edward Sapir was born in Pomerania, Germany, in 1884, and came to the United States at the age of five. He first made his reputation as an expert on languages of the Native American. He taught at the University of Chicago and later at Yale, and was one of the first to explore the relations between language studies and anthropology. He died in 1939. Language, first published in 1921, is his only full-length book for a general audience. He published a great many articles and some verse in periodicals.