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Edward Sapir

Birthday: January 26, 1884
Deathday: February 04, 1939
Category: American Scientist
Type: Scientist
National: American

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A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

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