This person's fieldwork in California underpinned a monograph on the languages of Native Americans, which he suggested be placed into six distinctive categories; that field work especially dealt with the Yana, Paitue, and Navajo languages.
This person's fieldwork in California underpinned a monograph on the languages of Native Americans, which he suggested be placed into six distinctive categories; that field work especially dealt with the Yana, Paitue, and Navajo languages. His 1949 collection of essays is "Language, Culture, and Personality." Another concept associated with this linguist is the so-called "Language Drift," an idea present in his Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech. Along with another man, this linguist developed a theory sometimes called linguistic relativism. For ten points, identify this linguist and anthropologist whose most famous hypothesis examines the influence of language on cognizance and was formulated with Whorf.
This person's fieldwork in California underpinned a monograph on the languages of Native Americans, which he suggested be placed into six distinctive categories; that field work especially dealt with the Yana, Paitue, and Navajo languages.
Edward {Sapir}