[...] such instinctive cries [...] If they convey certain ideas to the hearer, it is only in the very general sense in which any and every sound [...] may be said to convey an idea to the perceiving mind.
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 5

The [...] word, 'sing', is an indivisible phonetic entity conveying the notion of a certain specific activity.
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 25

In such a Latin word as 'cor' 'heart,' [...] not only is a concrete concept conveyed, but there cling to the form [...] the three distinct [...] formal concepts of singularity, gender classification [...] and case (subjective-objective).
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 29

There are languages that can convey all that is conveyed by 'The-mayor is-going-to-deliver-a-speech' in two words, a subject word and a predicate word, but English is not so highly synthetic. There are languages that can convey all that is conveyed by 'The-mayor is-going-to-deliver-a-speech' in two words, a subject word and a predicate word, but English is not so highly synthetic.
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 36

The simplest [...] method of conveying some sort of grammatical notion is to juxtapose two or more words in a definite sequence [...]
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 62

[...] indifference of the sentence as such to some part of the analysis of its words is shown by the fact that if we substitute such radical words [...] The new sentence [...] is totally different from the first sentence in what it conveys, not in how it conveys it.
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 85