The Boundaries of Babel
The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
Published on 13. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-262-51506-1 (ISBN)
Description
An exploration of what research at the intersection of contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences can reveal about the constraints on the apparently chaotic variation in human languages.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
8 halftones, 1 line drawing, 4 graphs, 1 figure
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-51506-1 (9780262515061)
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06/2008
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Persons
Andrea Moro is Professor of General Linguistics at the Institute for Advanced Study (IUSS) in Pavia, Italy. He is the author of Dynamic Antisymmetry, Impossible Languages, and The Boundaries of Babel (all published by the MIT Press), and other books, including The Raising of Predicates and I Speak, Therefore I Am.