http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/PhS.1-15.003
Voloshina Oxana A.,
Ph. D. Candidate of Philolodgy., Lecturer of the Philological Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of Institute of Linguistics of Russian State University for the Humanities
E-mail: oxanav2005@mail.ru
The article is devoted to the scientific interests of the famous American linguist of XX century Edward Sapir. The article focuses on the main scientific ideas of Sapir — typological classification of languages, the description of the languages of American Indians, the hypothesis of linguistic relativity, in which Sapir said about the close relationship between the structure of language and the features of the national view of the world.
Keywords: Edward Sapir, linguistic typology, typological classification of languages, American Indian languages.
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