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Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech Edward Sapir from Columbia Encyclopedia

 

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Time Perspective in Aboriginal American Culture, A Study in Method

This monograph formalizes the method of historical inference implicit in Boas's reconstruction of the history of cultures and languages, developed at a time when there was scant archeological evidence from American prehistory. 

"Drawing on linguistic examples from a remarkable range of cases, Sapir ... distinguished methodologically between the properties of language and culture for historical reconstructions. Sound change in language, unlike the other parts of culture, he argued, retained traces of the past historical relationships of language. In consequence, genetic relationships could be discerned and distinguished from other kinds of relationships by the application of methods used in Indo-European historical linguistics, even in the absence of written records. Sapir's treatise remained the ethnologist's guide to historical method for a generation and still repays careful attention to the forms of his logic"

from "Edward Sapir" by Regna Darnell and Judith T. Irvine in Biographical Memoirs V71 (1997)

 

Reading

  1. "The Rival Chiefs, a Kwakiutl Story Recorded by George Hunt" [edited, with synopsis, pp. 108-110, by Edward Sapir], in Boas Anniversary Volume, New York (1906), pp. 108-136.
  2. "Religious Ideas of the Takelma Indians of Southwestern Oregon," Journal of American Folk-Lore, 20 (1907): 33-49.
  3. "Notes on the Takelma Indians of Southwestern Oregon," American Anthropologist, n.s., 9 (1907): 251-275.
  4. "Preliminary Report on the Language and Mythology of the Upper Chinook," American Anthropologist, n.s., 9 (1907): 533-544.
  5. "Herder's Ursprung der Sprache," Modern Philology, 5 (1907): 109-142.
  6. "Luck-Stones among the Yana," Journal of American Folk-Lore, 21 (1908): 42.
  7. "On the Etymology of Sanskrit asru, Avestan asru, Greek dakru, in Spiegel Memorial Volume, J. J. Modi, ed. Bombay (1908):156-159.
  8. "Characteristic Features of Yana" [abstract], Science, n.s., 29: (1909): 613; also published in American Anthropologist, n.s., 11 (1909): 110.
  9. Review of Frank G. Speck, Ethnology of the Yuchi Indians, in Old Penn Weekly Review (Philadelphia), December 18, (1909): 183.
  10. Wishram Texts, together with Wasco Tales and Myths, collected by Jeremiah Curtin and edited by Edward Sapir, American Ethnological Society Publications, Vol. II Leyden. (1909).
  11. Takelma Texts, University of Pennsylvania, Anthropological Publications, 2(1) (1909): 1-263.
  12. "An Apache Basket Jar," University of Pennsylvania Museum Journal, 1 (1910):13-15.
  13. "Some Fundamental Characteristics of the Ute Language" [abstract], Science, n.s., 31 (1910):350-352; Also published in American Anthropologist, n.s., 12 (1910): 66-69.
  14. "Two Paiute Myths," University of Pennsylvania Museum Journal, 1 (1910): 15-18.
  15. "Takelma," in Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30, Pt. II, (1910):673-674.
  16. "Wasco," in Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 30, Pt. II, (1910):917-918.
  17. "Review of C. Hart Merriam, The Dawn of the World," Science, n.s., 32, (1910):557-558.
  18. Yana Texts (together with Yana Myths, collected by Roland B. Dixon), University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, 9 (1910): 1-235.
  19. "Song Recitative in Paiute Mythology," Journal of American Folk-Lore, 23 (1910): 455-472.
  20. "Some Aspects of Nootka Language and Culture," American Anthropologist, n.s., 13 (1911): 15-28.
  21. Review of R. B. Dixon, The Chimariko Indians and Language, in American Anthropologist, n.s., 13 (1911): 141-143.
  22. "The Problem of Noun Incorporation in American Languages," American Anthropologist, n.s., 13 (1911): 250-282.
  23. "An Anthropological Survey of Canada," Science, n.s., 34 (1911): 789-793.
  24. "Chinook" (incorporated in Franz Boas, "Chinook"), in Handbook of American Indian Languages, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 40, Pt. I,(1911):578, 579, 625-627, 638-645, 650-654, 673-677.
  25. "The History and Varieties of Human Speech," Popular Science Monthly, 79 (1911): 45-67; Reprinted in Annual Report, Washington: Smithsonian Institution (1912), pp. 573-595.
  26. "The Mourning Ceremony of the Southern Paiutes" [abstract], Science, n.s., 35 (1912): 673; also published as American Anthropologist, n.s., 14 (1912):168-169.
  27. "Review of A. A. Goldenweiser, Totemism: An Analytical Study," Psychological Bulletin, 9 (1912): 454-461.
  28. "The Work of the Division of Anthropology of the Dominion Government," Queen's Quarterly, 20 (1912): 60-69.
  29. Summary Report, Geological Survey of Canada, for 1910 (Ottawa), (1912):3-4.
  30. Summary Report, Geological Survey of Canada, for 1911 (Ottawa), (1912):5-7, 15-16.
  31. "Review of Franz Boas, Kwakiutl Tales," Current Anthropological Literature, 1 (1912):193-198.
  32. "Language and Environment," American Anthropologist, n.s., 14 (1912): 226-242.
  33. "The Indians of the Province" [of British Columbia], in British Columbia: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources. London (1912):135-140.
  34. "Review of Carl Stumpf, Die Anfdnge der Musik," in Current Anthropological Literature, 1 (1912): 275-282.
  35. "A Note on Reciprocal Terms of Relationship in America," American Anthropologist, n.s., 15 (1913): 132-138.
  36. "A Tutelo Vocabulary," American Anthropologist, n.s., 15 (1913): 295-297.
  37. "Review of Carl Meinhof, Die Sprachen der Hamiten," in Current Anthropological Literature, 2 (1913): 21-27.
  38. "Southern Paiute and Nahuatl, a Study in Uto-Aztekan, Pt. I," Journal Société des Américanistes de Paris, n.s., 10 (1913): 379-425.
  39. "Algonkin p and s in Cheyenne," American Anthropologist, n.s., 15 (1913): 538-539.
  40. "A Girls' Puberty Ceremony among the Nootka Indians," Transactions, Royal Society of Canada, 3d series, 7 (1913): 67-80.
  41. Summary Report, Geological Survey of Canada, for 1912. Ottawa. (1913):448-453, 505-506.
  42. "Methods and Principles," review of Erich von Hornbostel, "Ueber ein akustisches Kriterium für Kulturzusammenhange," in Current Anthropological Literature, 2 (1913): 69-72.
  43. "Wiyot and Yurok, Algonkin Languages of California," American Anthropologist, n.s., 15 (1913): 617-646.
  44. "Indian Tribes of the Coast" [of British Columbia], in A. Shortt and A. G. Doughty, eds., Canada and Its Provinces. Toronto (1914) :313-346.
  45. Notes on Chasta Costa Phonology and Morphology, University of Pennsylvania, Anthropological Publications, 2 (1914): 271-340.
  46. Summary Report, Geological Survey of Canada, for 1913. Ottawa, (1914):355-363, 389.
  47. Abnormal Types of Speech in Nootka, Canada Department of Mines, Geological Survey, Memoir 62, Anthropological Series, No. 5. (1915)
  48. Noun Reduplication in Comox, a Salish Language of Vancouver Island, Canada Department of Mines, Geological Survey, Memoir 63, Anthropological Series, No. 6. (1915).
  49. "The Social Organization of the West Coast Tribes," Transactions, Royal Society of Canada, 2d series, 9 (1915): 355-374.
  50. Summary Report, Geological Survey of Canada, for 1914, Ottawa,(1915):168-177.
  51. A Sketch of the Social Organization of the Nass River Indians, Canada Department of Mines, Geological Survey, Museum Bulletin 19, Anthropological Series, No. 7. (1915).
  52. "Notes on Judeo-German Phonology," The Jewish Quarterly Review, n.s., 6 (1915): 231-266.
  53. "Algonkin Languages of California: a Reply," American Anthropologist, n.s., 17 (1915):188-194.
  54. "Southern Paiute and Nahuatl, a Study in Uto-Aztekan," Pt. II, American Anthropologist, n.s., 17 (1915): 98-120, 306-328; also published as Journal, Société des Américanistes de Paris, n.s., 11(1914) : 443-488.
  55. "The Na-dene Languages, a Preliminary Report," American Anthropologist, n.s., 17 (1915):534-558.
  56. "Corrigenda to Father Morice's Chasta Costa and the Dene Languages of the North," American Anthropologist, n.s., 17 (1915): 765-773.
  57. Summary Report, Geological Survey of Canada, for 1916. Ottawa, (1916):265-274.
  58. "Review of Paul Abelson, ed., English-Yiddish Encyclopedic Dictionary," in The Jewish Quarterly Review, 7 (1916): 140-143.
  59. "Phonetic Orthography and Notes to 'Nootka,' " in "Vocabularies from the Northwest Coast of America," Franz Boas, ed., Proceedings, American Antiquarian Society, 26 (1916): 4-18.
  60. "Phonetic Orthography and Notes to 'Nootka,' " in Phonetic Transcriptions of Indian Languages, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 66 (1916): 1-15.
  61. "Terms of Relationship and the Levirate," American Anthropologist, n.s., 18 (1916): 327-337.
  62. "Percy Grainger and Primitive Music," American Anthropologist, n.s., 18 (1916): 592-597.
  63. Tiwe Perspective in Aboriginal American Culture: A Study in Method, Canada Department of Mines, Geological Survey, Memoir 90, Anthropological Series, No. 13. (1916).
  64. "Culture in the Melting Pot," comments on John Dewey's article, "American Education and Culture." In The Nation Supplement (December 21, 1916):1-2.
  65. The Position of Yana in the Hokan Stock, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, 13 (1917):1-34.
  66. Summary Report, Geological Survey of Canada, for 1916, Anthropological Division, Part I, Ethnology and Linguistics, (1917): 387-392, 394, 395.
  67. "Do We Need a 'Superorganic'?" American Anthropologist, n.s., 19 (1917): 441-447.
  68. "The Status of Washo," American Anthropologist, n.s., 19 (1917): 449-450.
  69. "Linguistic Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, a General Review," International Journal of American Linguistics, 1(1917): 76-81.
  70. Review of C. C. Uhlenbeck, "Het Passieve Karakter van bet Verbum Transitivum of van bet Verbum Actionis in Talen van Noord-Amerika," in International Journal of American Linguistics, 1 (1917): 82-86.
  71. Review of C. C. Uhlenbeck, "Het Identificeerend Karakter der Possessieve Flexie in Talen van Noord-Amerika," in International Journal of American Linguistics, 1 (1917):86-90.
  72. "A Freudian Half-Holiday," review of Sigmund Freud, Delusion and Dream, in The Dial, 63 (1917): 635-637.
  73. " `Jean-Christophe' : An Epic of Humanity," review of Romain Rolland, JeanChristophe, in The Dial, 62 (1917): 423-426.
  74. "Realism in Prose Fiction," The Dial, 62 (1917): 503-506.
  75. "A Frigid Introduction to Strauss," review of Henry T. Finck, Richard Strauss, the Man and His Works, in The Dial, 62 (1917): 584-586.
  76. "The Twilight of Rhyme," The Dial, 63 (1917): 98-100.
  77. Psychoanalysis as a Pathfinder," review of Oskar Pfister, The Psychoanalytic Method, in The Dial, 63 (1917): 267-269.
  78. Yana Terms of Relationship, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, 13 (1918):153-173.
  79. Review of Benigno Bibolotti, Moseteno Vocabulary and Treatises, in International Journal of American Linguistics, 1 (1918): 183-184.
  80. "Representative Music," The Musical Quarterly, 4 (1918): 161 -167.
  81. "An Ethnological Note on the 'Whiskey-Jack'," The Ottawa Naturalist, 32 (1918): 116-117.
  82. "Kinship Terms of the Kootenay Indians," American Anthropologist, n.s., 20 (1918): 414-418.
  83. "Sancho Panza on His Island," review of G. K. Chesterton, Utopias of Usurers and Other Essays, in The Dial, 64 (1918): 25-27.
  84. "God as Visible Personality," review of Samuel Butler, God the Known and God the Unknown, in The Dial, 64 (1918): 192-194.
  85. "A University Survey of Religions," review of James A. Montgomery, ed., Religions of the Past and Present (Faculty Lectures, University of Pennsylvania), in The Dial, 65 (1918):14-16.
  86. "Tom," Canadian Courier (Dec. 7 1918), p. 7.
  87. "Data on Washo and Hokan," in R. B. Dixon and A. L. Kroeber, Linguistic Families of California, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, 16 (1919): 108-112.
  88. "A Flood Legend of the Nootka Indians of Vancouver Island," Journal of American Folk-Lore, 32 (1919):351-355.
  89. "Corrigenda and Addenda to W. D. Wallis' Indogermanic Relationship Terms as Historical Evidence," American Anthropologist, n.s., 21 (1919): 318-328.
  90. "Corrigenda to `Kinship Terms of the Kootenay Indians,' " American Anthropologist, n.s., 21 (1919): 98.
  91. "Civilization and Culture," The Dial, 67 (1919): 233-236. Also published as Pt. 2 of "Culture, Genuine and Spurious," 1924, see below.
  92. Review (unsigned) of Cary F. Jacob, The Foundations and Nature of Verse, in The Dial, 66 (1919): 98, 100.
  93. "The American Indian," review of C. Wissler, The American Indian, in The New Republic, 19 (1919): 189-191.
  94. "The Poet Seer of Bengal," review of Tagore's Lover's Gift, Crossing, Mashi and Other Stories, in The Canadian Magazine, 54 (1919): 137-140.
  95. "A Note on French Canadian Folk-Songs," Poetry, 20 (1919): 210-213.
  96. "The Hokan and Coahuiltecan Languages," International Journal of American Linguistics, 1 (1920): 280-290.
  97. "A Note on the First Person Plural in Chimariko," International Journal of American Linguistics, 1 (1920): 291-294.
  98. Review of J. Alden Mason, The Language of the Salinan Indians, in International Journal of American Linguistics, 1 (1920): 305-309.
  99. "Nass River Terms of Relationship," American Anthropologist, n.s., 22 (1920): 261-271.
  100. "The Heuristic Value of Rhyme," Queen's Quarterly, 27 (1920): 309-312.
  101. "Primitive Society," review of R. H. Lowie, Primitive Society, in The Nation, 111 (1920):46-47.
  102. "Primitive Humanity and Anthropology," review of R. H. Lowie, Primitive Society, in The Dial, 69 (1920): 528-533.
  103. "Primitive Society," review of R. H. Lowie, Primitive Society, in The Freeman, 1 (1920):377-379.
  104. "The Poetry Prize Contest," The Canadian Magazine, 54 (1920): 349-352.
  105. Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech (New York, Harcourt, Brace. (1921).
  106. Summary Report for Anthropological Division, Victoria Memorial Museum: Ethnology and Linguistics, 1920. Ottawa. (1921):18-20.
  107. "A Bird's-eye View of American Languages North of Mexico," Science, n.s., 54 (1921): 408.
  108. "A Characteristic Penutian Form of Stem," International Journal of American Linguistics, 2 (1921): 58-67.
  109. "A Supplementary Note on Salinan and Washo," International Journal of American Linguistics, 2 (1921): 68-72.
  110. "A Haida Kinship Term among the Tsimshian," American Anthropologist, n.s., 23 (1921):233-234.
  111. "The Musical Foundations of Verse," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 20 (1921):213-228.
  112. "The Life of a Nootka Indian," Queen's Quarterly, 28 (1921): 232-243, 351-367; Also published under title of "Sayach'apis, a Nootka Trader," 1922, see below.
  113. "The Mythology of All Races," review of The Mythology of All Races, Vols. 3, 11, 12, in The Dial, 71 (1921): 107-111.
  114. "Gerard Hopkins," review of Robert Bridges, ed., Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, in Poetry, 18 (1921): 330-336.
  115. "Writing as History and as Style," review of W. A. Mason, A History of the Art of Writing, in The Freeman, 4 (1921): 68-69.
  116. "Myth, Historian, and Psychologist," review of H. B. Alexander, Latin-American (Vol. XI, The Mythology of All Races), in The Nation, 112 (1921): 889-890.
  117. "The Ends of Man." review of J. M. Tyler, The New Stone Age in Northern Europe; Stewart Paton, Human Behavior; E. G. Conklin, The Direction of Human Evolution. In The Nation, 113 (1921): 237-238.
  118. "Maupassant and Anatole France," The Canadian Magazine, 57 (1921): 199-202.
  119. "A Touchstone to Freud," review of W. H. R. Rivers, Instinct and the Unconscious, in The Freeman, 5 (1921): 357-358.
  120. "Culture, Genuine and Spurious," [Pt. 2], The Dalhousie Review, 2 (1922): 165-178, 358-368. Pts. 1 and 2 reprinted in American Journal of Sociology (1924), see below.
  121. The Fundamental Elements of Northern Yana, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, 13 (1922): 21:-234.
  122. "Athabaskan Tone," American Anthropologist, n.s., 24 (1922): 390-391.
  123. "The Takelma Language of Southwestern Oregon," in Handbook of American Indian Languages, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 40, Part II, (1922):1-296.
  124. "Vancouver Island Indians," in James Hastings, ed., Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (New York), 12 (1922): 591-595.
  125. "Sayach'apis, a Nootka Trader," in E. C. Parsons, ed., American Indian Life .New York (1922): 297-323.
  126. "Language and Literature" (chap. 11 of Language, 1921), The Canadian Magazine, 59 (1922): 457-462.
  127. "Practical Psychology," review of Frederick Pierce, Our Unconscious Mind and How to Use It, in The Literary Review, New York Evening Post (July 1 1922): 772.
  128. Review (unsigned) of Arthur Davison Ficke, Mr. Faust, in The Dial, 73 (1922): 235.
  129. Review (unsigned) of George Saintsbury, A Letter Book, in The Dial, 73 (1922): 235.
  130. Review of Gilbert Murray, Tradition and Progress, in The Dial, 73 (1922): 235.
  131. Review (unsigned) of Selma Lagerlöf, The Outcast, in The Dial, 73 (1922): 354.
  132. Review of Edgar Lee Masters, Children of the Market Place, in The Dial, 73 (1922): 457.
  133. "A Symposium of the Exotic," review of E. C. Parsons, ed., American Indian Life, in The Dial, 73 (1922): 568-571.
  134. "The Manner of Mr. Masefield," review of John Masefield, King Cole, in The Freeman, 5 (1922): 548-549.
  135. "Mr. Masters's Later Work," review of Edgar Lee Masters, The Open Sea, in The Freeman, 5 (1922): 333-334.
  136. "A Peep at the Hindu Spirit," review of More Jataka Tales, retold by Ellen C. Babbitt, in The Freeman, 5 (1922):404.
  137. Review of John Masefield, Esther and Berenice, in The Freeman, 5 (1922): 526.
  138. "An Orthodox Psychology," review of R. S. Woodworth, Psychology: A Study of Mental Life, in The Freeman, 5 (1922): 619.
  139. "Heavens," review of Louis Untermeyer, Heavens, in The New Republic, 30 (1922): 351.
  140. "Introducing Irony," review of Maxwell Bodenheim, Introducing Irony, in The New Republic, 31 (1922): 341.
  141. "Maxwell Bodenheim," review of Maxwell Bodenheim, Introducing Irony, in The Nation, 114 (1922): 751.
  142. "Poems of Experience," review of Edwin Arlington Robinson, Collected Poems, in The Freeman, 5 (1922): 141-142; Also published under title, "Edwin Arlington Robinson") in The Canadian Bookman (August 1922): 210-211.
  143. "Spoon River Muddies," review of Edgar Lee Masters, The Open Sea, in The Canadian Bookman (April 1922): 132, 140.
  144. Review of Edward Thomas, Collected Poems, in The New Republic, 32 (1922): 226.
  145. Summary Report for Anthropological Division, Vicotria Memorial Museum: Ethnology and Linguistics, fiscal year ending March 31, 1922 .Ottawa. (1922): 22-25.
  146. Text Analyses of Three Yana Dialects, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, 20 (1923): 263-294.
  147. "The Algonkin Cffinity of Yurok and Wiyot Kinship Terms," Journal, Société des Américanistes de Paris, n.s., 15 (1923): 36-74.
  148. "A Note on Sarcee Pottery," American Anthropologist, n.s., 25 (1923): 247-253.
  149. "A Type of Athabaskan Relative," International Journal of American Linguistics, 2 (1923):136-142.
  150. "The Phonetics of Haida," International Journal of American Linguistics, 2 (1923): 143-159.
  151. Review of Truman Michelson, "The Owl Sacred Pack of the Fox Indians," in International Journal of American Linguistics, 2 (1923):182-184.
  152. [With Hsü Tsan Hwal "Two Chinese Folk-Tales," Journal of American FolkLore, 36 (1923): 23-30.
  153. [With Hsü Tsan Hwal "Humor of the Chinese Folk," Journal of American FolkLore, 36 (1923): 31-35.
  154. "Archaeology and Ethnology" f bibliograph], Canadian Historical Review, 4 (1923): 374-378.
  155. Summary Report for Anthropological Division, Victoria Memorial Museum: Ethnology and Linguistics, fiscal year ending March 31, 1923. Ottawa. (1923): 28-31.
  156. "The Two Kinds of Human Beings," review of C. G. Jung, Psychological Types or the Psychology of Individuation, in The Freeman, 8 (1923): 211-212.
  157. Review of Edwin Björkman, The Soul of a Child, in The Double Dealer, 51 (1923): 78-80.
  158. "An Approach to Symbolism," review of C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, The Meaning of Meaning, in The Freeman, 7 (1923): 572-573.
  159. "The Epos of Man," review of Johannes V. Jensen, The Long Journey, in The World Tomorrow, 6 (1923): 221.
  160. "Mr. Housman's Last Poems," review of A. E. Housman, Last Poems, in The Dial, 75 (1923):188-191.
  161. "Culture, Genuine and Spurious," American Journal of Sociology, 29 (1924): 401-429
  162. "The Grammarian and His Language," American Mercury, 1 (1924): 149-155.
  163. "Anthropology at the Toronto Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1924," American Anthropologist, n.s., 26 (1924): 563-565.
  164. "Personal Names among the Sarcee Indians," American Anthropologist, n.s., 26 (1924): 108-119.
  165. "The Rival Whalers, a Nitanat Story (Nootka Text with Translation and Grammatical Analysis)," International Journal of American Linguistics, 3 (1924): 76-102.
  166. "Racial Superiority," The Menorah Journal, 10 (1924): 200-212.
  167. "Twelve Novelists in Search of a Reason," review of The Novel of Tomorrow arid the Scope of Fiction, by Twelve American Novelists. In The Stratford Monthly (May 1924).
  168. "Memorandum on the Problem of an International Auxiliary Language," The Romanic Review, 16 (1925): 244-256.
  169. "The Hokan Affinity of Subtiaba in Nicarague," American Anthropologist, n.s., 27 (1925): 402-435, 491-527.
  170. "Pitch Accent in Sarcee, an Athabaskan Language," Journal, Société des Américanistes de Paris, n.s., 17 (1925): 185-205.
  171. "Indian Legends from Vancouver Island," Transactions, Women's Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, 9 (1925): 142-143.
  172. "Sound Patterns in Language," Language, 1 (1925): 37-51.
  173. "The Heuristic Value of Rhyme," Queen's Quarterly, 27 (1925): 309-312.
  174. Summary Report for the Fiscal Year Ending March 51, 1924, Anthropological Division: Ethnology and Linguistics. Ottawa (1925):36-40.
  175. "Is Monotheism Jewish?" review of Paul Radin, Monotheism among Primitive Peoples, in The Menorah Journal, 11 (1925): 524-527.
  176. "Are the Nordics a Superior Race?" The Canadian Forum (June 1925):265-266.
  177. Report of the Department of Mines, Dominion of Canada, for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 1926: Anthropological Division, Ethnology and Linguistics (Ottawa 1925), pp. 37-41.
  178. Review of A. Meillet and Marcel Cohen, eds., Les Langues du monde, in Modern Language Notes, 40 (1925): 373-375.
  179. "Undesirables-Klanned or Banned," The American Hebrew, 116 (1925): 286.
  180. "Let Race Alone," The Nation, 120 (1925): 211-213.
  181. "The Race Problem," review of: F. G. Crookshank, The Mongol in Our Midst; H. W. Siemens, Race Hygiene and Heredity; Jean Finot, Race Prejudice; J. H. Oldham, Christianity and the Race Problem. In The Nation, 121 (1925): 40-42.
  182. "An American Poet," review of H.D., Collected Poems, in The Nation, 121 (1925): 211.
  183. "Emily Dickinson, a Primitive," review of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, and M. D. Bianchi, The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson, in Poetry, 26 (1925): 97-105.
  184. "The Tragic Chuckle," review of Edwin Arlington Robinson, Dionysus in Doubt, in Voices (November 1925), pp. 64-65.
  185. "Philology," in The Encyclopaedia Britannica (Supplementary Volumes, 13th ed.), 3 (1926): 112-115.
  186. "Speech as a Personality Trait," abstract of a paper delivered before the Illinois Society for Mental Hygiene (Oct. 1926) in Health Bulletin, Illinois Society for Mental Hygiene, December; also published in American Journal of Sociology (May, 1927), q.v.
  187. "A Chinookan Phonetic Law," International Journal of American Linguistics, 4 (1926):105-110.
  188. Review of Knight Dunlap, Old and New Viewpoints in Psychology, American Journal of Sociology, 31 (1926): 698-699.
  189. Review of George A. Dorsey, Why We Behave Like Human Beings, American Journal of Sociology, 32 (1926): 140.
  190. Review of Otto Jespersen, Mankind, Nation and Individual from a Linguistic Point of View, in American Journal of Sociology, 32 (1926): 498-499.
  191. Review of Father Berard Haile, A Manual of Navaho Grammar, in American Journal of Sociology, 32 (1926): 511.
  192. "Leonie Adams," review of Leonie Adams, Those Not Elect, in Poetry, 27 (1926): 275-279.
  193. Review of Ludwig Lewisohn, Israel, in The Menorah Journal, 12 (1926): 214-218.
  194. "Anthropology and Sociology," in W. F. Ogburn and A. Goldenweiser, eds., Chapter 9 in The Social Sciences and Their Interrelations. Boston (1927): 97-113.
  195. "Language as a Form of Human Behavior," The English Journal, 16 (1926): 421-433.
  196. "The Unconscious Patterning of Behavior in Society," in E. S. Dummer, ed., The Unconscious: A Symposium. New York. (1927): 114-142.
  197. "Speech as a Personality Trait," American Journal of Sociology, 32 (1927): 892-905.
  198. "A Reasonable Eugenist," review of F. H. Hankins, The Racial Basis of Civilization, in The New Republic, 53 (1927): 146.
  199. "Speech and Verbal Thought in Childhood," review of Jean Piaget, The Language and Thought of the Child, in The New Republic, 50 (1927): 350-351.
  200. Review of Paul Radin, Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of an American Indian, in American Journal of Sociology, 33 (1927): 303-304.
  201. Review of A. Hyatt Verrill, The American Indian: North, South, and Central America, in American Journal of Sociology, 33 (1927): 295-296.
  202. "An Expedition to Ancient America: A Professor and a Chinese Student Rescue the Vanishing Language and Culture of the Hupas in Northern California," The University of Chicago Magazine, 20 (1927): 10-12.
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  204. Review of James Weldon Johnson, ed., The Book of American Negro Spirituals, in Journal of American Folk-Lore, 41 (1928):172-174.
  205. "The Meaning of Religion," The American Mercury, 15 (1928): 72-79. Also published also title "Religions and Religious Phenomena," (1929) see below.
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  210. Review of Knut Hamsun, The Women at the Pump, in The New Republic, 56 (1928): 335.
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  213. "The Status of Linguistics as a Science," Language, 5 (1928): 207-214.
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  217. "Religions and Religious Phenomena," in Baker Brownell, ed., Religious Life (Man and His World, Vol. 11). New York. (1929): 11-33; printed also in The American Mercury (1928).
  218. "A Study in Phonetic Symbolism," Journal of Experimental Psychology, 12 (1929): 225-239.
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  221. "What Is the Family Still Good For?" Winnetka Conference on the Family (Oct. 28, 1929):31-34. Also published in The American Mercury (1930).
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  223. Review of Waldo Frank, The Rediscovery of America, in American Journal of Sociology, 35 (1929): 335-336.
  224. "The Skepticism of Bertrand Russell," review of Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays, in The New Republic, 57 (1929): 196.
  225. "Franz Boas," review of Franz Boas, Anthropology and Modern Life, in The New Republic, 57 (1929): 278-279.
  226. "Design in Pueblo Pottery," review of R. L. Bunzel, The Pueblo Potter, in The New Republic, 61(1929): 115.
  227. [With Leslie Spier] Wishram Ethnography, University of Washington Publications in Anthropology, 3 (1930):151-300.
  228. Totality, Linguistic Society of America, Language Monographs, No. 6 (1930).
  229. The Southern Paiute Language: Southern Paiute, a Shoshonean Language; Texts of the Kaibab Paiutes and Uintah Utes; Southern Paiute Dictionary, Proceedings, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 65 (1930-31)
  230. Proceedings, Second Colloquium on Personality Investigation; Held under the Joint Auspices of the American Psychiatric Association and of the Social Science Research Council (Baltimore, Md.), (1930): 37-41, 122-125.
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  232. "Our Business Civilization," review of James Truslow Adams, Our Business Civilization: Some Aspects of American Culture, in Current History, 32 (1930): 426-428.
  233. "The Discipline of Sex," Child Study (March 1930):170-173, 187-188; printed also in The American Mercury (1929).
  234. "What Is the Family Still Good For?" American Mercury, 19 (1930):145-151; printed also in Winnetka Conference on the Family (1929), q.v.
  235. "Communication," Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (New York), 4(1931): 78-81.
  236. "Dialect," Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (New York), 5 (1931): 123-126.
  237. "Fashion," Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (New York), 6 (1931): 139-144.
  238. "Custom," Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (New York), 4 (1931): 658-662.
  239. "Language, Race, and Culture," Chap. 10 in V. F. Calverton, ed., The Making of Man. New York, (1931): 142-156.
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  241. "The Concept of Phonetic Law as Tested in Primitive Languages by Leonard Bloomfield," in Stuart A. Rice, ed., Methods in Social Science: A Case Book. Chicago, (1931): 297-306.
  242. "Notes on the Gweabo Language of Liberia," Language, 7 (1931): 30-41.
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  245. "Wanted, a World Language," The American Mercury, 22 (1931): 202-209.
  246. "Group," Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences. New York, 7 (1932): 178-182.
  247. [With Morris Swadesh] The Expression of the Ending-Point Relation in English, French, and German (Alice V. Morris, ed.), Linguistic Society of America, Language Monographs, No. 10.
  248. "Two Navaho Puns," Language, 8 (1932): 217-219.
  249. "Cultural Anthropology and Psychiatry," Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 27 (1932): 229-242.
  250. Review of James G. Leyburn, Handbook of Ethnography, in American Journal of Science, 5th series, 23 (1932): 186-189.
  251. "Language," Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (New York), 9 (1933): 155-169.
  252. "La Réalité Psychologique des Phonèmes," Journal de Psychologie Normale et Pathologique (Paris), 30 (1933): 247-265.
  253. "Personality," Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (New York), 12 (1934): 85-87.
  254. "Symbolism," Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (New York), 14: (1934) 492-495.
  255. "The Emergence of the Concept of Personality in a Study of Cultures," Journal of Social Psychology, 5 (1934): 408-415.
  256. "Hittite hepatis "Vassal" and Greek b ,raàbs," Language, 10 (1934): 274-279.
  257. [With others] "Some Orthographic Recommendations," American Anthropologist, n.s., 36 (1934): 629-631.
  258. "The Bush Negro of Dutch Guiana," review of Melville J. Herskovits and Frances S. Herskovits, Rebel Destiny: Among the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana, in The Nation, 139 (1934): 135.
  259. Review of A. G. Morice, The Carrier Language (Déné Family): A Grammar and Dictionary Combined, in American Anthropologist, n.s., 37 (1935): 500-501.
  260. "A Navaho Sand Painting Blanket," Anterican Anthropologist, n.s., 37 (1935): 609-616.
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  280. "Indo-European Prevocalic s in Macedonian," American Journal of Philology, 40 (1939): 463-465.
  281. "Songs for a Comox Dancing Mask" (edited by Leslie Spier), Ethnos (Stockholm), 4 (1939): 49-55.
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  286. "Grading, a Study in Semantics," Philosophy of Science, 11(1944): 93-116.
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While we often speak of society as though it were a static structure defined by tradition, it is, in the more intimate sense, nothing of the kind, but a highly intricate network of partial or complete understandings between the members of organizational units  of every degree of size and complexity, ranging from a pair of lovers or a family to a league of nations or that ever increasing portion of humanity which can be reached by the press through all its transnational ramifications.

Quite aside from their intrinsic interest, linguistic forms and historical processes have the greatest possible diagnostic value for the understanding of some of the more difficult and elusive problems in the psychology of thought and in the strange, cumulative drift in the life of the human spirit that we call history or progress or evolution.—