Such languages as Chinese and English, in which the principle of rigid sequence is well developed, tend not infrequently also to the development of compound words.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.64

[...] we may [...] frankly write 'shui-fu' as a single word, the meaning of the compound as a whole being as divergent from the precise etymological values of its component elements as is that of our English word typewriter from the merely combined values of 'type' and 'writer'.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.64

In English the unity of the word 'typewriter' is [...] safeguarded by a predominant accent on the first syllable [...] Chinese also unifies its compounds by means of stress.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.65

[...] classical Greek, in spite of its relative freedom in the placing of words, has a very considerable bent for the formation of compound terms.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.65

There is a bewildering variety of types of composition. These types vary according to function, the nature of the compounded elements, and order.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.66