The birth of a new concept is invariably foreshadowed by a more or less strained or extended use of old linguistic material; the concept does not attain to individual and independent life until it has found a distinctive linguistic embodiment.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.17

Radical [...] element and sentence [...] are the primary functional units of speech, the former as an abstracted minimum, the latter as the esthetically satisfying embodiment of a unified thought.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.32

[...] the [...] embodiment of the general drift of the language is psychologically registered as a slight hesitation in using the word whom.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.161