Edward Sapir (1884–1939). Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech. 1921.
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more far-reaching, than the contrast of isolating, agglutinative, and fusional.28
Note 28. In a book of this sort it is naturally impossible to give an adequate idea of linguistic structure in its varying forms. Only a few schematic indications are possible. A separate volume would be needed to breathe life into the scheme. Such a volume would point out the salient structural characteristics of a number of languages, so selected as to give the reader an insight into the formal economy of strikingly divergent types. [back]
