Sapir Philip et al (Editors). The Collected Works of Edward Sapir: Volume 1: General Linguistics

Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. — 582 p. — (The Collected Works of Edward Sapir). — ISBN: 978-3-11-019519-4.Volume I of Edward Sapirs Collected Works contains the reedition of Sapirs papers and reviews in general linguistics, in the philosophy of language and linguistics (the origin of language; general semantics; the construction of an international auxiliary language), as well as his articles on language and dialect written for the Encyclopedia of Social Sciences. The texts have been reedited and supplied with an introductory study and notes. The introductory studies assess Sapirs contribution to the linguistic study of the various topics dealt with. Volume I also contains a reprint of retrospective appraisals of Sapirs work in general linguistics written by Zellig Harris and Stanley Newman.Introduction: Sapir’s Life and Work
The Problem of the Origin of Language (1907)
Introduction to Sapir’s “Herder’s “Ursprung der Sprache”” (1907), by Pierre Swiggers
Herder’s “Ursprung der Sprache” (1907)
History,Variety and Setting of Language (1911, 1912)
Introduction: History, Variety and Setting of Language, by Pierre Swiggers.
The History and Varieties of Human Speech (1911).
Language and Environment (1912).
Theoretical, Descriptive and Historical Linguistics (1923–1929)
Introduction: Theoretical, Descriptive and Historical Linguistics, 1923–1929, by Pierre Swiggers.
An Approach to Symbolism (review of C.K. Ogden and I.A. Richards,
The Meaning of Meaning) (1923)
The Grammarian and his Language (1924)
Review of A. Meillet and M. Cohen (eds.), Les langues du monde(1925)
Sound Patterns in Language (1925)
Philology (1926)
Review of O. Jespersen, Mankind, Nation and Individual from a Linguistic Point of View(1926)
Language as a Form of Human Behavior (1927)
Review of R.G. Kent, Language and Philology(1928)
The Status of Linguistics as a Science (1929).
A Study in Phonetic Symbolism (1929)
The Problem of an International Auxiliary Language (1925–1933)
Introduction: The Problem of an International Auxiliary Language, by Pierre Swiggers
Memorandum on the Problem of an International Auxiliary Language (1925)
The Function of an International Auxiliary Language (1931)
Wanted: a World Language (1931).
The Case for a Constructed International Language (1933).
Annex: The Statement of the International Auxiliary Language Association made at the second International Conference of Linguists (Geneva, 1931).
Studies in Universal Conceptual Grammar (1930, 1932, 1944)
Introductory Note: Sapir’s Studies in Universal Conceptual Grammar, by Pierre Swiggers
Introduction to Sapir’s texts “Totality”, “Grading”, and “The Expression of the Ending-Point Relation”, by Sir John Lyons
Totality (1930)
The Expression of the Ending-Point Relation in English, French, and German (1932)
Grading, a Study in Semantics (1944).
Patterns of Language in Relation to History and Society (1931–1933–[1947])
Introduction: Sapir’s General Linguistics in the 1930s, by Pierre Swiggers
The Concept of Phonetic Law as Tested in Primitive Languages by Leonard Bloomfield (1931)
Communication (1931)
Conceptual Categories in Primitive Languages (1931)
Dialect (1931)
Language (1933)
La réalité psychologique des phonèmes (1933)
Corrections to the French version published in 1933
The Psychological Reality of Phonemes (1933/1949)
Editorial notes on the English version published in 1949
The Relation of American Indian Linguistics to General Linguistics (1947)