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Function, Selection, and Innateness: The Emergence of Language Universals

Function, Selection, and Innateness: The Emergence of Language Universals

Hardcover

Linguistics

ISBN10: 0198238118
ISBN13: 9780198238119
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 24 1999
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book is a powerful demonstration of the value of looking at language as an adaptive system, which reaches the heart of debates in linguistics and cognitive science on the evolution and nature of language. Simon Kirby combines functional and formal theories in order to develop a way of treating language as an adaptive system in which its communicative and formal roles have crucial and complimentary roles.

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