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Possible and Probable Languages: A Generative Perspective on Linguistic Typology

Possible and Probable Languages: A Generative Perspective on Linguistic Typology

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Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 0199274339
ISBN13: 9780199274338
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 8 2005
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
In this important and pioneering book Frederick Newmeyer seeks to explain the variety of languages. He combines the leading ideas of the functionalist and formalist approaches to linguistic typology, advocating principles of Universal Grammar to explain why some language types are impossible, and functional principles to explain why some grammatical features are more common than others.

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