Monaghan, Leila

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• Crossing Three Worlds: The Intellectual Life of Edward Sapir
  24 July 2017, by Frederico Delgado-Rosa

  Linguistic anthropologist Edward Sapir (1884-1939) negotiated between multiple worlds of linguistic study. Writing for American Mercury magazine in 1924, Sapir argued, “There are two ways, it seems, to give linguistics its requisite dignity as a science. It may be treated as history or it may be studied comparatively as form.” Reflecting this, his work included traditional 19^th century historically-oriented philology, 20^th century synchronic study of linguistic form, and exploring the (...)