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, para…
An investigation into the possibility of impossible languages, searching for the indelible ""fingerprint"" of human language
An investigation into the possibility of impossible languages, searching for the indelible ""fingerprint"" of human language.
"Can there be such a thing as an impossible human language? A biologist could describe an impossible animal as one that goes against the physical laws of nature (entropy, for example, or gravity). Are there any such laws that constrain languages? In this book, Andrea Moro -- a d…
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, para…
L'interpretazione del verbo essere è come una costante che attraversa tutto il pensiero linguistico dell'Occidente sin dalle prime opere di Aristotele. E nel suo dipanarsi si intreccia con la filosofia, la metafisica, la logica e perfino con la matematica, tanto che Bertrand Rus…