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Impossible languages /

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, paralleling the effort of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moro, Andrea (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Learning from the impossible
  • Capturing the stem mindâ
  • Sentences as snowflakes
  • The unreasonable sieve
  • The boundaries of Babel
  • Intermezzo or what exists when a tree exists?
  • Toward the source of order
  • The sound of thought
  • The inverse thunderstorm
  • Better than possible: designed languages
  • A closer look at the turtle eyes.