| Function, Selection, and Innateness: The Emergence of Language Universals Contributor(s): Kirby, Simon (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198238118 ISBN-13: 9780198238119 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $69.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 401 |
| LCCN: 98-37704 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.94 lbs) 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
