Anna R. Kinsella

Language Evolution and Syntactic Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Discusses the relationship between Chomskyan syntactic theory and the evolution of language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780521895309
• ISBN-10: 0521895308
• Artikelnr.: 26527594

Autorenporträt

Anna R. Kinsella is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Language Evolution & Computation Research Unit in the Department of Linguistics & English Language at the University of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Constraining our theory of language
2. Language as a perfect system
3. Language as an evolvable system
4. Language as a recursive system
5. Language as a minimal system
6. Towards an evolvable theory of syntax.