LINGUISTICS

Study this grid to find the listed words. When you’ve crossed them off, the letters left over will spell out what the renowned German-American linguist and anthropologist Edward Sapir described language to be.

1. Accepted

2. Active

3. Animate

4. Aphaeresis

5. Attributive

6. Base

7. Clause

8. Comparative

9. Contrastive

10. Correlative

11. Dative

12. Declarative

13. Development

14. Early

15. Genitive

16. Historical

17. Illative

18. Independent

19. Inflected

20. Interrogative

21. Late

22. Middle

23. Modern

24. New

25. Nominative

26. Nonrestrictive

27. Old

28. Participial

29. Passive

30. Past participle

31. Phoneme

32. Phonetics

33. Phylum

34. Possessive

35. Predicate

36. Predicative

37. Prepositional

38. Prescriptive

39. Present

40. Primitive

41. Qualified

42. Qualifying

43. Received

44. Relationship

45. Scientific

46. Segmental

47. Self-Referent

48. Semantics

49. Sonant

50. Sound

51. Speech

52. Standard

53. Stative

54. Stem

55. Structure

56. Subordinating

57. Subordinative

58. Substantival

59. Surd

60. Syntax

61. Theme

62. Theoretical

63. Tone

64. Unacceptable

65. Vocative

66. Voiced

67. Voiceless

68. Weak