Function, Selection, and Innateness: The Emergence of Language Universals

by SimonKirby (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $186.99

  This text explores issues at the core of modern linguistics and cognitive science such as why all languages are similar in some ways and in others utterly different; why languages change and change variably; how the human capacity for language evolved; and how far it did so as an innate ability?