"Challenging and original, The Language Organ treats human language as the manifestation of a faculty of the mind, a mental organ whose nature is determined by human biology. Its functional properties should be explored just as physiology explores the functional properties of ph…
Kashmiri is one of the least studied Indo-European languages, especially in terms of generative grammar, and is unique in exhibiting both the German/Dutch type of verb-second and the Yiddish/Icelandic type. Bhatt (U. of South Carolina) takes advantage of that feature to investig…
This is a collection of essays on the native and non-native acquisition of syntax within the Principles and Parameters framework. In line with current methodology in the study of adult grammars, language. acquisition is studied here from a comparative perspective. The unifying t…
This is a collection of essays on the native and non-native acquisition of syntax within the Principles and Parameters framework. In line with current methodology in the study of adult grammars, language acquisition is studied here from a comparative perspective. The unifying th…