Chapter 7

Edward Sapir

1970 The Work and Thought of Edward Sapir in Anthropology: An analysis. An Honors Paper presented to the Faculty of the Department of Anthropology, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 20 April 1970, ii, 107 typed pp.

1974 “The Individual, His Culture and His Rights”. The Journal of Intergroup Relations 3:4.3–12.

1990 “The Structure of Drift”. Historical Linguistics 1987 ed. by Henning Andersen & E. F. K. Koerner, 1–20. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

1972 Phonological Theory: Evolution and current practice, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

1939 “Edward Sapir”. American Anthropologist 41.465–477. (Pp. 465–468; repr. as Item 4 in Koerner, ed. 2007.) 

1976 “La recherche anthropologique au Musée National du Canada, 1910 à 1925”. Bulletin of the Canadian Ethnology Society / Société d’Ethnologie Canadienne No. 1 (Dec. 1976), 28–50. (Rev. version published in Historiographia Linguistica 11:3.397–412 [1984] = Item 54 in Koerner, ed. 2007.)

1922 Review of Sapir (1921). The Classical Weekly 15.142–143 (13 March 1922) (Repr. as Item 32 in Koerner, ed. 2007.) 

1939 “Edward Sapir”. International Journal of American Linguistics 10.58–63. (Pp. 58–59 repr. as Item 1 in Koerner, ed. 2007.) 

1923 Review of Sapir (1921). The Queen’s Quarterly 30:4.389–394.

1922 Review of Sapir (1921). Modern Language Notes 37:3.188–192.

1991 Bright’s Old English Grammar and Reader. Ed. by Frederick G[omes] Cassidy & Richard N. Ringler. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

1991 “Sapir and Distant Linguistic Relationship”. Bulletin of the Edward Sapir Society of Japan 19.19–25.

1980 “Edward Sapir and Gestalt Psychology”. Anthropological Linguistics 22.141–150. [Cf. the reply by Murray (1981b).]

1988 Review article on Greenberg (1987). Language 64:3.591–615.

1951 Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew. M.A. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania. (Revised version published, New York: Garland 1979.)

1973 “The Origins of Canadian Anthropology, 1850–1910”. Journal of Canadian Studies 8.33–45.

1952 “Eminent Personalities of the Half Century”. American Anthropologist 54.157–167.

1924 Review of Sapir (1921), together with Saussure (²1922). Modern Language Review 19.253–255.

eds. 1986 New Perspectives in Language, Culture, and Personality: Proceedings of the Edward Sapir Centenary Conference (Ottawa, 1–3 Oct. 1984). (= Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 41.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, xiv, 627 pp.; illustr..

ed. 1984 Edward Sapir’s Correspondence: An alphabetical and chronological inventory, 1910–1925. Ottawa: National Museum of Man.

1976 “The Sapir Years at the National Museum, Ottawa”. The History of Canadian Anthropology: Proceedings of the plenary session of the Canadian Ethnology Society ed. by James Friedman, 98–121. Hamilton, Ont.: Canadian Ethnology Society. (Rev. version first published in Koerner, ed. 1984.159–178; repr in Volume II, Item 53 in Koerner, ed. 2007.)

1986 “Edward Sapir’s Six Unit Classification of American Indian Languages: The search for time perspective”. Essays in the History of Western Linguistics ed. by Theodora Bynon & Frank Palmer, 202–244. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

1997 “Edward Sapir, January 26, 1884–February 4, 1939”. National Academy of Sciences: Biographiccal memoirs 71, 281–300. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences.

1976 “The Whorf Hypothesis and Native American Literature”. South Dakota Review 14:2.59–72.

1922 “A New View of Language [= Review of Sapir (1921)]”. The Canadian Bookman (May 1922), p.170.

1999 “Textuality and the ‘Voices’ of Informants: The case of Edward Sapir’s 1929 Navajo field work”. Anthropological Linguistics 41:2.165–192.

1975 “Neuere Untersuchungen zur Sapir-Whorf Hypothese”. Linguistics No. 145.5–45.

1940 “Edward Sapir”. The American Philosophical Society Yearbook 1939.460–463. (Pp. 460–462 repr. as Item 2 in Koerner, ed. 2007.)

1988 “Edward Sapir and the Prague School”. Historiographia Linguistica 15: 3.377–399. (Repr. as Item 19 in Koerner, ed. 2007.) 

1997 “Wilhelm von Humboldt, Edward Sapir, and the Constructivist Framework”. Historiographia Linguistica 24: 3.285–306. (Repr. as Item 77 in Koerner, ed. 2007.) 

1970 “Sapir et l’ethnolinguistique”. Langages No. 18: L’ethnolinguistique ed. by Bernard Pottier, 14–21. Paris: Didier/Larousse.

1988 “Te Impact of Sapir’s Six-Phylum Linguistic Scheme on Speculation on North-American Indian Culture History: A bibliographical essay”. Anthropological Linguistics 30:1.37–67.

ed. 1999 Leonard Bloomfield: Critical assessments of leading linguists. 3 vols. London & New York: Routledge.

2001 “Sapir’s Vision on Culture and Personality”. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes 64: 1.32–39.

1996 “Harrington, John Peabody”. Lexicon Grammaticorum: Who’s Who in the History of Western Linguistics ed. by Harro Stammerjohann, 389–390. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. (2nd ed., Lexicon Grammaticorum: A biobibliographical companion to the history of linguistics ed. by Harro Stammerjohann, 611. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer.)

1922 “An Exclusive Art [= Review of Sapir 1921]”. Christian Science Monitor (1 Feb. 1922).

1951 Review of Sapir (1949). American Anthropologist 52.516–518. (Repr. as Item 36 in Koerner, ed. 2007.) 

1953 Review of Sapir (1949). Filología (Buenos Aires) 2.210–220.

1954 “E. Sapir i ètnografičeskaja lingvistika [E. Sapir and ethnographic linguistics]”. Voprosy Jazykoznanija 3:1.110–127.

1953 “Sapir and the Training of Anthropological Linguists”. American Anthropologist 55.447–450. (Repr. as Item 41 in Koerner, ed. 2007.) 

1976 “Boas, Sapir, and Bloomfield”. American Indian Languages and American Linguistics: The Second Golden Anniversary Symposium of the Linguistic Society of America ed. by Wallace L. Chafe, 59–69. Lisse/Holland: Peter de Ridder Press.

2001 “Sprachtypologie bei Edward Sapir”. Language Typology and Language Universals: An international handbook ed. by Martin Haspelmath et al., 264–266. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

1951 Review article on Sapir (1949). Language 27. 288–333. (Repr. as Item 39 in Koerner, ed. 2007.) 

1968 “Sapir, Edward. II: Contributions to linguistics”. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 14.13–14. New York: Macmillan & Free Press.

1922 Review of Sapir (1921). The Ottawa Citizen of 16 Feb. 1922 [Adapted under the title of “The Wonders of Speech” in the Toronto Daily Star on 22 Feb. 1922.]

eds. 2001 Language Typology and Language Universals: An international handbook. 2 tomes. Berlin New York: Walter de Gruyter.

1984 “Edward Sapir in Japan: A survey of translations, 1940–1983”. Historiographia Linguistica 11:3.461–466.

1939 “Edward Sapir”. Acta Linguistica 1.76–77. (Repr. as Item 7 in Koerner, ed. 2007.) 

1954 “Two Models of Grammatical Description”. Word 10.210–231. (Repr. in Joos, ed. 1957.386–398.)

1987 “Letters from Bloomfield to Michelson and Sapir”. Historiographia Linguistica 14: 1/2.39–60.

1940 “Edward Sapir”. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 74: 6.157–159 (Nov. 1940).

1970 “Linguistic Method in Ethnography”. Method and Theory in Linguistics ed. by Paul L[ucian] Garvin, 249–311. The Hague: Mouton. (Repr., with revisions, in Hymes 1983.135–244.)

1983 Essays in the History of Linguistic Anthropology. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [Cf. the review article by Murray (1984).]

ed. 1994 Edward Sapir, The Psychology of Culture. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. (Cf. the review by Stephen O. Murray in Historiographia Linguistica 22: 3.419–421 [1995].)

1939 “Edward Sapir”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for 1939, 3rd series, 33.151–153 (1940) (Repr. as Item 3 in Koerner, ed. 2007.)

1922 Language: Its nature, development and origin. London: Allen & Unwin.

1978 “Whorf: The differentiation of language”. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 18.83–110.

ed. 1957 Readings in Linguistics [I]: The development of descriptive linguistics in America since 1925 [later changed to: … 1925–56 ]. Washington, D.C.: American Council of Learned Societies. (4th ed., Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press 1966.)

1996 “The Immediate Sources of the ‘Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis’”. Historiographia Linguistica 23:3.365–404. (Revised version, with ‘immediate’ omitted, in Joseph 2002.47–105. Repr. as Item 76.)

2002 From Whitney to Chomsky: Essays in the history of American linguistics. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

1977 “The Humbodltian Trend in Linguistics”. Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics: Festschrift for Winfred P. Lehmann ed. by Paul J. Hopper, 145–158. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

ed. & introd. 1984 Edward Sapir: Appraisals of his life and work. (= Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 36.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, xxviii, 224 pp.; 8 photographs, 6 facsimiles. [Reviewed by John B. Carroll in Historiographia Linguistica 13:1.103–106 (1986).]

1922 “A Study of Language [= Review of Sapir 1921]”. The Dial 72: 3.314–117. (Excerpted as Item 21 in Koerner, ed. 2007.)

1984 [1959] “Reflections on Edward Sapir, Scholar and Man”. Koerner, ed. 1984.131–139.

1925 Review of Sapir (1921). English Studies 7.177–179.

1972 “Another Look at Drift”. Linguistic Change and Generative Theory: Essays from the UCLA conference on historical linguistics in the perspective of transformational theory ed. by Robert P. Stockwell & Ronald K. S. Macauley, 172–198. Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press.

1996 The Whorf Theory Complex: A critical reconstruction. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

eds. 1977 La Phonologie 1: Les écoles et les théories. Paris: Klincksieck.

1919 Review of Sapir (1916). American Anthropologist 21.75–77. (Repr. as Item 31.)

1996 “The Scope of Linguistic Relativity: An analysis and review of empirical research”. Rethinking Linguistic Relativity ed. by John J. Gumperz & Stephen C. Levinson, 37–69. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1949 “Introduction”. Sapir (1949), v–xii.

1968 “Edward Sapir I: Contribution to cultural anthropology”. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 14.9–13. New York: Macmillan & Free Press.

1967 “Sapir’s Phonologic Representation”. International Journal of American Linguistics 33.106–111. (Repr. as Item 44.)

1922 Review of Sapir (1921), together with Jespersen (1922) and Vendryes (1921). Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 23:2.1–9, especially pp. 6–8.

1953 “Edward Sapir et la syntagmatique”. Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure 11.11–30.

1981a “The Canadian ‘Winter’ of Edward Sapir”. Historiographia Linguistica 8.63–68. (Repr. as Item 2 in Koerner, ed. 2007.) 

1986: “Edward Sapir’s Coursework in Linguistics and Anthropology”. Historiographia Linguistica 13:1.125–130. (Repr. as Item 17 in Koerner, ed. 2007.) 

1951 Review of Sapir (1949). International Journal of American Linguistics 17.180–186. (Repr. as Item 38 in Koerner, ed. 2007.) 

1923 The Meaning of Meaning: A study of the influence of language upon thought and of the science of symbolism. London: Methuen; New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. [Frequently reprinted.]

1996 “Edward Sapir”. Lexicon Grammaticorum: Who’s Who in the History of Western Linguistics ed. by Harro Stammerjohann, 822–823. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. (2nd ed., Lexicon Grammaticorum: A biobibliographical companion to the history of linguistics ed. by Harro Stammerjohann, 1328–1329. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer.)

1971 Language in Relation to a Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Behavior. 2nd, rev. ed. The Hague: Mouton & Co.

1984 “Some Teachers who Helped Me”. Historiographia Linguistica 11:1.493–495. (Repr. as Item 25 in Koerner, ed. 2007.) 

1966 “Edward Sapir’s Anthropology: Style, structure and method”. American Anthropologist 68.1105–1128. (Repr. as Item 43 in Koerner, ed. 2007.) 

1980 “Reflections on Edward Sapir’s Anthropology in Canada”. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 17:4.367–374. (Repr. as Item 70 in Koerner, ed. 2007.) 

1922 Review of Sapir (1921), together with Schrijnen (1921). Journal of English and Germanic Philology 21:2.353–357 (1922).

1922 Review of Sapir (1921). The Literary Review of the New York Evening Post of 6 May 1922.

1922 Review of Sapir (1921). The Canadian Forum 2: 24.762 and 764 (Sept. 1922).

1998 “Distributive Models of Culture: A Sapirian alternative to essentialism”. American Anthropologist 100: 1.55–69.

1961 The National Museum of Canada 1910–1960. Ottawa: Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, v, 37 pp..

1930 “Wishram Ethnology”. University of Washington Publications in Anthropology 3.151–300. (Repr. in Sapir 1990– Vol. 7, 357–506.)

1922 [1916] Cours de linguistique générale. Publié par Charles Bally & Albert Sechehaye avec la collaboration de Albert Riedlinger. 2e édition. Paris: Payot.

1921 Einführung in das Studium der indogermanischen Sprachwissenschaft. Heidelberg: Carl Winter.

1987 “Sapir’s Concept of Drift in Semiotic Perspective”. Semiotica 67.159–171. (Repr. as Item 47 in Koerner, ed. 2007) 

1991 “Problems of Sapir Historiography”. Historiographia Linguistica 18:1.181–204.

1992 “El método de Sapir para establecer relaciones genéticas remotas”. Reflexiones Lingüísticas y Literarias I: Lingüística ed. by Rebeca Barriga Villanueva & Josefina García Fajardo, 17–42. México: Colegio de México.

1952 Review of Sapir (1949). Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap 16.465–467.

eds. 1941 Language, Culture, and Personality: Essays in memory of Edward Sapir. Menasha, Wis.: Edward Sapir Memorial Fund.

1991 “Notes sur la linguistique générale en 1921–1922. Avec l’édition de deux lettres de Joseph Vendryes à Edward Sapir”. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft 1.185–191.

1997 “Tsimshianic and Penutian: Problems, methods, results, and implications”. International Journal of American Linguistics 63.65–112.

1951 Review note on Sapir (1949). Studies in Linguistics 9:1.18–19.

1959 “The Systematization of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis”. Anthropological Linguistics 1:1.31–38.

2001 Studies in General Linguistics and Language Structure. Transl. by Marvin Taylor & Anatoly Liberman. Durham, N.C. & London: Duke University Press.

1974 The History of Anthropology in Canada. Toronto: Dept. of Anthropology, University of Toronto, mimeographed, 47 pp.

1975 “An Explanation of Drift”. Word Order and Word Order Change ed. by Charles N. Li, 269–305. Austin: University of Texas Press.

1942 “Sapir: Insight and rigor”. American Anthropologist 44.322–324.

1952 “Edward Sapir”. Word Study 27:4.1–3. (Repr. as Item 40 in Koerner, ed. 2007.)

1963 “On the History of Structuralizing in 20th-Century America”. Anthropological Linguistics 5:1.12–37.

1922 Review of Sapir (1921), together with Vendryes (1921). Revue de l’Institut de Sociologie (Brussels) 2:2.309–314 (March 1922), esp. pp. 312–213.

1970 “An Explanation of Sapir’s Concept of Language in the Light of Ethnological Theory and Piagetian Developmental Psychology”. Language Sciences No. 11.8–10 (August 1970) (Revised version published as Item 64 in Koerner, ed. 2007.)

1922 Review of Sapir (1921). The Nation (New York 8 March 1922).