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Categories: American Mesoamericanists, 20th-century Mesoamericanists, Paleolinguists, Linguists of indigenous languages of North America, 20th-century linguists
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Benjamin Lee Whorf  B. L. Whorf  B.L. Whorf  Benjamin L. Whorf  Benjamin Whorf
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Benjamin Lee Whorf was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer who is famous for proposing the "Sapir–Whorf hypothesis." Wikipedia
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Benjamin Lee Whorf was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer who is famous for proposing the "Sapir–Whorf hypothesis." Wikipedia
American linguist Wikidata
IS A
homo
CAUSE OF DEATH
cancer
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
Sapir
EDUCATED AT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yale University
EMPLOYER
Yale University
FAMILY NAME
Whorf
FIELD OF WORK
linguistics
volkerpsychologie
GIVEN NAME
Benjamin
INFLUENCED BY
Humboldt
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MANNER OF DEATH
natural causes
NOTABLE WORK
linguistic relativity
OCCUPATION
anthropologist
philosopher
linguist
PLACE OF BIRTH
Winthrop
PLACE OF DEATH
Wethersfield
SEX OR GENDER
male
Wikipedia
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Benjamin Lee Whorf
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Benjamin Lee Whorf
Wikipedia Redirections
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B. L. Whorf, B.L. Whorf, Benjamin L. Whorf, Benjamin Whorf, Whorf, Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941, Worf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941
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Benjamin Whorf

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