Whorf took Sapir's first course at Yale on " American Indian Linguistics ".

Edward Sapir's first language was Yiddish, and later English.

Sapir's second wife, Jean Victoria McClenaghan, was sixteen years younger than him, had first met Sapir as a student in Ottawa, but had since also come to work at the University of Chicago's department of Juvenile Research.

The Sapir – Whorf hypothesis influenced the development and standardization of Interlingua during the first half of the 20th Century, but this was largely due to Sapir's direct involvement.

Whorf took on a central role among Sapir's students and was well respected.

He was also deeply influenced by Sapir's death in early 1939.

Born in German Pomerania, Sapir's parents emigrated to America when he was a child.

Sapir's 1905 Master's thesis was an analysis of Johann Gottfried Herder's Treatise on the Origin of Language, and included examples from Inuit and Native American languages, not at all familiar to a Germanicist.

Tillohash was Sapir's collaborator on the famous description of the Southern Paiute language.

Sapir's special focus among American languages was in the Athabaskan languages, a family which especially fascinated him.

Russian Psychologist Lev Vygotsky read Sapir's work and experimentally studied the ways in which the development of concepts in children was influenced by structures given in language.

But the reputation he had during his lifetime belies this idea: his academic peers at Yale University considered the " amateur " Whorf to be the best man available to take over Sapir's graduate seminar in Native American linguistics while Sapir was on sabbatical in 1937 – 38.

In any case, it was Harry Hoijer ( Sapir's student ) who coined the term.

By the time Sapir's 1929 Encyclopædia Britannica article was published, he had added two more branches:

Zuni was included with reservations under Aztec-Tanoan within Edward Sapir's heuristic 1929 classification ( without supporting evidence ).

Kroeber and Sapir's focus on Native American languages helped establish linguistics as a truly general science and free it from its historical focus on Indo-European languages.

Sapir's work on Takelma became his doctoral dissertation which he defended in 1908.

But Sapir did not want to compromise on quality, and in the end the Handbook had to go into press without Sapir's piece.

Mead received news of Sapir's remarriage while still in Samoa, and burned their correspondence there on the beach.

Mead received news of Sapir's remarriage while still in Samoa, and burned their correspondence there on the beach.

In elaborating his classification of the Amerind languages Greenberg relied heavily on Sapir's early work on the North American languages and the highly impressionist classification of South American languages by Paul Rivet.

The Photography of Marion Post Wolcott Website created by Wolcott's daughter, hosted on J. David Sapir's site Fixing Shadows, available online: http :// people. virginia. edu /~ ds8s / mpw / mpw-bio. html, 1999.

Sapir's earliest writings had espoused views of the relation between thought and language stemming from the Humboldtian tradition he acquired through Franz Boas, which regarded language as the historical embodiment of volksgeist, or ethnic world view.

His discoveries vindicate Sapir's recognition, long disregarded, that language is pre-eminently a social artifact, the users of which collectively create and re-create it in the course of using it.

Edward Sapir's and Benjamin Whorf's hypothesis of linguistic relativity holds that the language we speak both affects and reflects our view of the world.

Sapir's description of Southern Paiute is known by linguistics as " a model of analytical excellence ".

Sapir's parents had by now divorced and his father seemed to suffer from a psychosis, and made it necessary for him to leave Canada for Philadelphia, where Edward continued to support him financially.

Inspired by Sapir's early lists of word similarities between Native American languages, he began a life work in comparative linguistics.

His and Finance Minister Pinchas Sapir's subsequent " soft landing " of the overheated economy by means of recessive policies precipitated a drastic slump in economic activity.

Some well-known earlier American linguists like Morris Swadesh and Edward Sapir also pursued large-scale classifications like Sapir's 1929 scheme for the Americas, accompanied by controversy similar to that today.

Since Sapir's death in 1939 linguists have spent their time researching his proposals, and generally there have been two opposing camps in this endeavor: the so-called " lumpers " who are generally favorably inclined towards notions of genetic relationships, and the " splitters " who are generally critical of such proposals expecting successful family relations to be proven by the most rigorous standards of scholarship.

Tlapanec ( Me ' phaa ) and Subtiaba, which had been seen as related already by Lehmann but which had been included in Sapir's Hokan grouping were not to be included in the family until 1977 when Jorge A Suárez demonstrated the relationship.

Robert Lowie later said that Sapir's fascination with indigenous languages stemmed from the seminar with Boas in which Boas used examples from Native American languages to disprove all of Sapir's common-sense assumptions about the basic nature of Language.

Sapir's applications of the comparative method to unwritten Native American languages are regarded as groundbreaking.

At Yale, Whorf joined the circle of Sapir's students that included such luminary linguists as Morris Swadesh, Mary Haas, Harry Hoijer, G. L. Trager and Charles F. Voegelin.

As Jacob Sapir could not provide for his family, Sapir's mother, Eva Seagal Sapir, opened a shop to supply the basic necessities.

The dissertation foreshadowed several important trends in Sapir's work: Particularly the careful attention to native speakers ' intuition regarding sound patterns, that would later become the basis for Sapir's formulation of the phoneme.

The Delsons, who hailed from the prestigious Jewish center of Vilna, considered the Sapirs to be rural upstarts and were less than impressed with Sapir's career in an unpronounceable academic field.

But Sapir's conservative ideas about marriage and the woman's role were anathema to Mead, as they had been to Benedict, and as Mead left to do field work in Samoa the two separated permanently.

Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the Wallace Line that divides the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts, one in which animals closely related to those of Australia are common, and one in which the species are largely of Asian origin.

His first fieldwork took him to Vancouver Island to work on the Nootka language.

Cargo cults occurred periodically in many parts of the island of New Guinea, including the Taro Cult in northern Papua New Guinea and the Vailala Madness that arose in 1919 and was documented by F. E. Williams, one of the first anthropologists to conduct fieldwork in Papua New Guinea.

In 1969 he decided to undertake ethnographic fieldwork among the Nunamiut in Alaska, in order to better understand the periglacial environment that Mousterian hominins occupied, and to see first hand how hunter-gatherer behavior is reflected in material remains.

The first fieldwork here was that of Nicolas León in 1888.

In his American publications of the 1930s Parry introduced the hypothesis ( first suggested to him by Meillet and amply demonstrated in his own fieldwork ) that the formulaic structure of Homeric epic is to be explained as a characteristic feature of oral composition ( the so-called Oral Formulaic Hypothesis ).

Nevertheless, many troupes claimed to have carried out more serious " fieldwork ". Similar to American people who come from all over the world creating one big ‘ melting pot ,’ it is only fitting that some of the first forms of truly American music and drama are composed of elements from many different places

Minor fields: Paleontology, Botany ), he did his first fieldwork in Mexico in 1939 and 1941, then in Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, and the Philippines during World War II while on leave from the U. S. Navy, in which he was Ensign to Lieutenant in the Communications and Medical Service Corps.

His first fieldwork began in 1926 with the Azande, a people of the upper Nile, and resulted in both a doctorate ( in 1927 ) and his classic Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande ( in 1937 ).

Fei ’ s first fieldwork experience, in the rugged mountains of Guangxi province in the far south, ended tragically after Fei ’ s leg was crushed by a tiger trap, and his young bride Wang Tonghui ( 王同惠 ) died seeking help.

In sociology and later criminology, the Chicago School ( sometimes described as the Ecological School ) was the first major body of works emerging during the 1920s and 1930s specialising in urban sociology, and the research into the urban environment by combining theory and ethnographic fieldwork in Chicago, now applied elsewhere.

Scientific divers are normally qualified scientists first and divers second, who use diving equipment and techniques as their way to get to the location of their fieldwork.

Following his education, Swanton first did fieldwork in the Northwest.

His fieldwork had resulted in the first detailed information on the life and culture of the Copper Inuit, the so-called " blond Eskimos ".

This language first came to the attention of academic linguists in 1977, through Pascal Boyeldieu's fieldwork in 1975 and 1978.

His first assignment involved fieldwork on bubonic plague in New Orleans.

After returning to Bogotá in 1960 to found and Chair the first Department of Anthropology in Colombia, Gerardo began fieldwork at the site of Puerto Hormiga where they discovered the earliest dated pottery in all of the New World ( at that time ), at over 5 thousand years old-which indicated that pottery had been first developed in the Caribbean coast of Colombia and then spread elsewhere to the rest of the Americas and hence was not brought through diffusion from the Old World.

The first reliable grammar of Cappadocian is Modern Greek in Asia Minor: A study of dialect of Silly, Cappadocia and Pharasa ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1916 ), by Richard MacGillivray Dawkins ( 1871 – 1955 ), the first Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, based on fieldwork conducted by the author in Cappadocia in 1909-1911.

Shortly after this, she conducted extensive fieldwork on the Creek language as well, and was the first modern linguist to collect extensive texts in the language.

The first study was conducted during the prosperous 1920s, beginning in January 1924, while the second was written, with far less fieldwork, late in the Great Depression in the United States.

The lead mines of Nantymwyn near Rhandirymwyn village some 8 miles away to the north may also have been first worked by the Romans, judging by hushing tanks and aqueducts found there in the 1970s both from fieldwork and aerial photographs.

Denyer left the UK for a time in 1974 to begin what he calls his " musical travels ", and to undertake his first attempts at ethnomusicological fieldwork ( in west Asia and the Kulu Valley in north India ).