Impossible languages
by Moro, Andrea
Understanding the nature and the structure of human language coincides with capturing the constraints which make a conceivable language possible or, equivalently, with discovering whether there can be any impossible languages at all. This work explores these related issues, paralleling the effort of a biologist who attempts at describing the class of impossible animals.
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- Full title :Impossible languages / Andrea Moro.
Summary
Understanding the nature and the structure of human language coincides with capturing the constraints which make a conceivable language possible or, equivalently, with discovering whether there can be any impossible languages at all. This work explores these related issues, paralleling the effort of a biologist who attempts at describing the class of impossible animals.
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- Publication Date:2017.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):The MIT Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017.
Notes
Previously issued in print: 2016.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource : : illustrations (black and white)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780262335621, 026233562X, 9780262335607, 0262335603
- oclc:ocn992544541
- LC Classification:P132
- Dewey Decimal:401
Table of Contents
Learning from the impossible -- Capturing the stem mindâ -- Sentences as snowflakes -- The unreasonable sieve -- The boundaries of Babel -- Intermezzo or what exists when a tree exists? -- Toward the source of order -- The sound of thought -- The inverse thunderstorm -- Better than possible: designed languages -- A closer look at the turtle eyes.
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