Function, Selection, and Innateness

Function, Selection, and Innateness

by Kirby, Simon

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This book explores issues at the core of modern linguistics and cognitive science. Why are all languages similar in some ways and in others utterly different? Why do languages change and change variably? How did the human capacity for language evolve, and how far did it do so as an innate ability? Simon Kirby looks at these questions from a broad perspective, arguing that they can (indeed must) be studied together. The author begins by examining how far the universal properties of language may …

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  • Full title :Function, Selection, and Innateness.

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This book explores issues at the core of modern linguistics and cognitive science. Why are all languages similar in some ways and in others utterly different? Why do languages change and change variably? How did the human capacity for language evolve, and how far did it do so as an innate ability? Simon Kirby looks at these questions from a broad perspective, arguing that they can (indeed must) be studied together. The author begins by examining how far the universal properties of language may be explained by examining the way it is used, and how far by the way it is structured. He then consid.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1999.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (176 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780198238119, 0198238118
  • oclc:on1027155926
  • LC Classification:P204.K53 1999
  • Dewey Decimal:410

Subjects

Linguistic universals Universaux (Linguistique)

Writers

Kirby, Simon

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