Paperback. This book addresses one of the most fundamental questions that can be asked about language: how can we explain language universals? There are currently many different views on this question. Some argue for the innateness of general linguistic principles within the human species. Others see a more social foundation to language, with linguistic structure reflecting various communicative functions. Yet others appeal to the psychological demands placed upon language - users in producing and comprehending language in real time. Language is also seen as a reflection of our human perceptual and cognitive apparatus, and there are also more grammar-internal explanations, whereby one part of the grammar is explained by another. This volume brings together all of these different views. The contributors have each been asked to provide some general explanation for which they see evidence, and to provide illustrative universal data supporting it. Expertise from several related disciplines includes linguistic, psycholinguistics and computer science-neural computing and artificial intelligence.The book is divided into five sections: an introductory section on explaining language universals; a section on innateness and learnability; on semantic and pragmatic explanations; on cognitive, perceptual and processing explanations; and on the diachronic dimension in explanation. This book addresses one of the most fundamental questions that can be asked about language: how can we explain language universals? There are currently many different views of this question. Some argue for the innateness of general linguistic principles within the human species. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Explaining Language Universals (Paperback)

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John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Hoboken

Erscheinungsjahr

1990

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0631174567

ISBN-13

9780631174561

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Paperback

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This book addresses one of the most fundamental questions that can be asked about language: how can we explain language universals? There are currently many different views of this question. Some argue for the innateness of general linguistic principles within the human species. Others see a more social foundation to language, with linguistic structure reflecting various communicative functions. Yet others appleal to the psychological demands placed upon language-users in producing and comprehending language in real time. Language is also seen as a reflection of our human perceptual and cognitive apparatus. And there are also more grammar-internal explanations, whereby one part of the grammar (such as some aspect of surface form) is explained by another (such as the semantics of that form).

This book is a state-of-the-art vollume which brings together all of these different views. The contributors have each benn asked to offer some general explanation for which they see evidence, and to provide illustrative universal data supporting it.

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John A. Hawkins is Professor and Chairman of Department in Linguistics at the University of Southern California.

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