Simon Kirby

Function, Selection, and Innateness

The Emergence of Language Universals

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780198238119
• ISBN-10: 0198238118
• Artikelnr.: 21239143

Inhaltsangabe

1: A Puzzle of Fit
2: The Impact of Processing on Word Order
3: Hierarchies and Competing Motivations
4: The Limits of Functional Adaptation
5: Innateness and Function in Linguistics
6: Conclusion