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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moro, Andrea (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Biolinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Analyse linguistique (Linguistique)
Biolinguistique.
Syntaxe.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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