In one work, this thinker writes that words which originally imitate the sound of nature evolve into "exclamative" words and then "attention-calling or demonstrative" words.
In one work, this thinker writes that words which originally imitate the sound of nature evolve into "exclamative" words and then "attention-calling or demonstrative" words. He collaborated on a paper entitled "A Visit to the Other World" with his wife Mary Haas, and his article "The Phonemic Principle" provided an early definition of the phoneme put to use by William Twadell. Dell Hymes wrote the foreword to this man's unfinished book, posthumously edited by Joel Sherzer, entitled The Origin and Diversification of Language. After being fired from the City College of New York for alleged communism, this man was hired by LÃ¡zaro CÃ¡rdenas' government and worked in Mexico City for the rest of his life, developing the discipline of lexicostatistics. For 10 points, name this American linguist whose technique in glottochronology includes publishing 100 words that he posited to be a universal basic vocabulary, referred to as his namesake "list."
In one work, this thinker writes that words which originally imitate the sound of nature evolve into "exclamative" words and then "attention-calling or demonstrative" words.
Morris Swadesh