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Who did Whorf substitute for, in teaching a seminar on American Indian linguistics in 1938?

  • Wilhelm von Humboldt

  • Wilhelm Wundt

  • Edward Sapir

  • Albert Einstein

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Benjamin Lee Whorf filled in for his mentor, Edward Sapir, in teaching a seminar on American Indian linguistics at Yale in 1938. Sapir, who was a renowned anthropologist and linguist, had become ill and was unable to fulfill his teaching duties. Whorf, an amateur linguist and student of Sapir's, stepped in as a substitute instructor for the seminar.
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