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The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar

Door Mark C. Baker e.a.

Categorie
Taalkunde & Woordenboeken
Boeknummer
#350241-VG44
Titel
The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar
Auteur
Baker, Mark C. & Mark Baker
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Basic Books
Jaar van uitgave
2001
ISBN10
0465005217
ISBN13
9780465005215
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original half cloth, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it implies a fundamental commonality-and thus the mutual intelligibility-of human thought. We are now on the verge of answering this question. Using a twenty-year-old theory proposed by the world's greatest living linguist, Noam Chomsky, researchers have found that the similarities among languages are more profound than the differences. Languages whose grammars seem completely incompatible may in fact be structurally almost identical, except for a difference in one simple rule. The discovery of these rules and how they may vary promises to yield a linguistic equivalent of the Periodic Table of the Element... (Lees verder)s: a single framework by which we can understand the fundamental structure of all human language. This is a landmark breakthrough, both within linguistics, which will thereby become a full-fledged science for the first time, and in our understanding of the human mind.
Pagina's
276
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 9,00

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