By E.F.K. Koerner
Starting with the anthropological linguistic culture linked essentially with the names of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and their scholars and concluding with the paintings of Noam Chomsky and William Labov on the finish of the century. This booklet deals a accomplished account of crucial classes and components of study within the heritage of yank Linguistics and likewise addresses modern debates and matters inside of linguistics. issues lined comprise: * The resources of the 'Sapir-Whorf speculation' * Leonard Bloomfield and the Cours de linguistique g?n?rale * The 'Chomskyan Revolution' and its Historiography * The Origins of Morphophonemics in American Linguistics *William Labov and the Origins of Sociolinguistics in the United States. Toward a heritage of yank Linguistics might be necessary analyzing for lecturers and complicated scholars in the fields of linguistics and the background of linguistics.
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Herder’s ‘Ursprung der Sprache’”. 109– 142. ) Sapir, Edward. 1917. Uhlenbeck, Het passieve karakter van het verbum transitivum of van het verbum actionis in talen van Noord-Amerika (Amsterdam: Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koniklijke Akademie van Wetenskappen te Amsterdam, [Afd. 187–216], 1916). 82–86. Sapir, Edward. 1921. “A Bird’s-Eye View of American Languages North of Mexico” . s. 408. (Repr. in Edward Sapir: Appraisals of his life and work ed. by Konrad Koerner, p. 140. ) Sapir, Edward. 1931.
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38 CHAPTER 3 ON THE SOURCES OF THE ‘SAPIRWHORF HYPOTHESIS’ 1. Introductory remarks In her recent account of the history of the concept of ‘linguistic relativity’ in American anthropological linguistics Regna Darnell noted the following about the so-called ‘Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis’: Oral tradition identifies Sapir as the crucial catalyst in what would eventually become the Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity. Moreover, the sometime addition of Sapir’s name implies that Whorf merely elaborated, perhaps exaggerated to the point of caricature, the ideas of his prestigious mentor.
