Mark C. Baker: The Atoms of Language

Cover: 9780465005222 | The Atoms of Language | The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar | Baker

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Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it implies a fundamental commonality-and thus the mutual intelligibility-of human thought. We are now on the verge of answering this question. Using a twenty-year-old theory proposed by the world's greatest living linguist, Noam Chomsky, researchers have found that the similarities among languages are more profound than the differences. Languages whose grammars seem completely incompatible may in fact be structurally almost identical, except for a difference in one simple rule. The discovery of these rules and how they may vary promises to yield a linguistic equivalent of the Periodic Table of the Elements: a single framework by which we can understand the fundamental structure of all human language. This is a landmark breakthrough, both within linguistics, which will thereby become a full-fledged science for the first time, and in our understanding of the human mind.

Über den Autor

Mark C. Baker is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and the Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He lives in Camden, New Jersey.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2002
Genre:	Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft , Importe
Rubrik:	Sprachwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Basic Books
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780465005222
ISBN-10:	0465005225
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Baker, Mark C.
Hersteller:	Hachette Book Group Basic Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	208 x 134 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Mark C. Baker
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.10.2002
Gewicht:	0,317 kg