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9780198238119

Function, Selection, and Innateness The Emergence of Language Universals

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198238119

  • ISBN10:

    0198238118

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-06-24
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

A Puzzle of Fit
The Impact of Processing on Word Order
Hierarchies and Competing Motivations
The Limits of Functional Adaptation
Innateness and Function in Linguistics
Conclusion
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