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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Sapir's first fieldwork was on the Wishram Chinook language in the summer of 1905, funded by the Bureau of American Ethnology.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Despite the concern of Haas and others, the Consensus Classification produced at a 1964 conference in Bloomington, Indiana, retained all of Sapir's groups for North America north of Mexico within the Penutian Phylum.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

By the time Lilian had been graduated from public school, her parents were doing quite well.

He was discharged from the hospital after a two-day checkup and he and his parents had what Mr. McKinley described as a `` celebration lunch '' at the cafeteria on the campus.

Amy had to be safe, had to come back to them -- if only to reap that share of life's experiences that were her due, if only to give her parents another chance to do better by her.

Therefore it's a genuine pleasure to tell you about an entirely happy bodybuilder who has never had to train in secret has never heard one unkind word from his parents and never has been taunted by his schoolmates!!

the child who had once considered it a treat to accompany his parents on picnics and family gatherings now considers it a bore.

Greene was in actuality a young ruffian from Kent, who had broken with his parents in order to keep the company he preferred -- pimps, panders and whores.

`` -- had enough brains to call ya up so as ya could do sompin about it when the parents -- I coulda let her go go '' -- His eyes were lowered, so he couldn't have seen the narrow, pointed face of his companion suddenly writhe with fury ; ;

It was one thing to awaken outside a restaurant where your parents were eating and quite another to awaken in a strange garage and know your parents had gone on home without you.

It was `` Duty '' he said that his parents had given him as a rule -- beyond even the love that suffused his being and the sense of humor with which he was largely supplied -- and it was duty he would perform, though it cost him acute pain and exhausted him by the age of fifty.

after coming to America, her parents had spoken only English.

his foster parents had taught him to see.

The deaths of their sons had profound effects on both parents.

But when it came time for Admetus to die, his parents, whom he had assumed would gladly die for him, refused to cooperate.

The controversy had caused many parents to remove their children and, as the school closed, Alcott became increasingly financially desperate.

His parents were Scots-Irish colonists Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Presbyterians who had emigrated from Ireland two years earlier.

Certainly his parents, who had worn the purple, were slain by it.

We are not certain that the word " democracy " was extant when systems that came to be called democratic were first instituted, but around 460 BC an individual is known whose parents had decided to name him ' Democrates ', a name which may have been manufactured as a gesture of democratic loyalty ; the name can also be found in Aeolian Temnus, not a particularly democratic state.

Records from the early 19th century survive to this day describing the distinct dialect that had surfaced in the colonies since first settlement in 1788, with Peter Miller Cunningham's 1827 book Two Years in New South Wales, describing the distinctive accent and vocabulary of the native born colonists, different from that of their parents and with a strong London influence.

However, by this time, he had also witnessed the failures of his parents ' relationships as well as those of some of his friends.

Alexander Grothendieck was born in Berlin to anarchist parents: a Ukrainian father from an ultimately Hassidic family, Alexander " Sascha " Shapiro aka Tanaroff, and a mother from a German Protestant family, Johanna " Hanka " Grothendieck ; both of his parents had broken away from their early backgrounds in their teens.

Dürer was born on 21 May 1471, third child and second son of his parents, who had between fourteen and eighteen children.

He was born on the island of Oenone or Oenopia, to which Aegina had been carried by Zeus to secure her from the anger of her parents, and whence this island was afterwards called Aegina.