The actual formal units of speech [...] often they mediate between [...] two extremes, embodying one or more radical notions and also one or more subsidiary ones.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.32

[...] irksome is a random correspondence between idea and linguistic expression in the field of abstract and relational concepts, particularly when the concept is embodied in a grammatical element.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.37

[...] neither the purely formal aspects of a language nor the course of its history can be fully understood without reference to the sounds in which this form and this history are embodied.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.42

Such a Nootka word [...] as 'when, as they say, he had been absent for four days' might be expected to embody at least three radical elements corresponding to the concepts of 'absent,' 'four,' and 'day.'
- Sapir (1921), a pag.65

We have [...] reviewed [...] the main processes that are used by all known languages to affect the fundamental concepts -those embodied in unanalyzable words or in the radical elements of words -by the modifying or formative influence of subsidiary concepts.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.82

[...] 'the farmer kills the duckling' [...] some or all of the thirteen concepts that our sentence happens to embody may not only be expressed in different form but that they may be differently grouped among themselves [...]
- Sapir (1921), a pag.90

[...] the same relational concept may be expressed more than once [...] and one element may convey a group of interwoven concepts rather than one definite concept alone (thus the '-s' of 'kills' embodies no less than four logically independent relations).
- Sapir (1921), a pag.96