EDWARD SAPIR BIOGRAPHY
The other major early 20th century American linguist who concerned himself with distant relationships between language families was Edward Sapir. Again, he has been shown to have had remarkable insight into which language families were related to one another. (Dr. Richard Rhodes, 2004)
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From forward of biography of Edward Sapir
Edward Sapir was one of those rare men ... who are spoken of by their colleagues in terms of genius.
His talents were manifest in many fields, in none more brilliantly and effective than in linguistics.
Sapir wrote, at least, 274 papers, books, or reviews. (Mandelbaum, 1949 Bibliography)
