Which linguist greatly influenced Sapir's work on Native American languages?
Franz Boas
Noam Chomsky
Leonard Bloomfield
Alfred Kroeber
Answer
Franz Boas greatly influenced Sapir's work on Native American languages. Boas was a German-American anthropologist who studied the cultures and languages of Native Americans. He believed that languages were shaped by the cultures of the people who spoke them, and that the study of languages could provide insights into the cultures of the people who spoke them.
Sailing through the Sapir of Linguistics: Unraveling the Legacy of Edward Sapir
More Questions
Sapir worked with Alfred Kroeber to document which languages?
Sapir worked for which organization for 15 years?
What university did Edward Sapir teach at towards the end of his life?
Which of his students developed the "Sapir–Whorf" hypothesis?
Edward Sapir was a major contributor to which area of linguistics?
Related Quizzes
Subscribe Now!
Learn something
new everyday
Playing quizzes is free! We send 1 quiz every week to your inbox