Impossible Languages
An investigation into the possibility of impossible languages, searching for the indelible fingerprint” of human language.Can there be such a thing as an impossible human language? A biologist could describe an impossible animal as one that goes against the physical laws of nature (entropy, for example, or gravity). Are there any such laws that constrain languages? In this book, Andrea Moro—a distinguished linguist and neuroscientist—investigates the possibility of impossible languages, searching, as he does so, for the indelible fingerprint” of human language.Moro shows how the very notion of impossible languages has helped shape research on…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-262-33561-4
- EAN: 9780262335614
- Produktnummer: 27872279
- Verlag: MIT Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 304 KB
- Abbildungen: 2 B&W ILLUS.
Über den Autor
Andrea Moro is Professor of General Linguistics at the Institute for Advanced Study (IUSS) in Pavia, Italy. He is the author of Dynamic Antisymmetry, Impossible Languages, and The Boundaries of Babel (all published by the MIT Press), and other books, including The Raising of Predicates and I Speak, Therefore I Am.
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