Robert C. Berwick, Noam Chomsky (Roam Agency Laureate Professor)

Why Only Us

Language and Evolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it.

Produktdetails

• Why Only Us
• Verlag: MIT Press / The MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 215
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 136mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780262533492
• ISBN-10: 0262533499
• Artikelnr.: 45786073

Autorenporträt

Robert C. Berwick is Professor of Computational Linguistics and Computer Science and Engineering, in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at MIT and the author of Computational Complexity and Natural Language and The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge, both published by the MIT Press. Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus) at MIT and the author of many influential books on linguistics, including Aspects of the Theory of Syntax and The Minimalist Program, both published by the MIT Press.

Rezensionen

Why Only Us: Language and Evolution is a loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon of language. New York Review of Books