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A Theory of Syntax: Minimal Operations and Universal Grammar

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A Theory of Syntax: Minimal Operations and Universal Grammar

Human language seems to have arisen roughly within the last 50-100,000 years. In evolutionary terms, this is the mere blink of an eye. If this is correct, then much of what we consider distinctive to language must in fact involve operations available in pre-linguistic cognitive domains. In this book Norbert Hornstein, one of the most influential linguists working on syntax, discusses a topical set of issues in syntactic theory, including a number of original proposals at the cutting edge of research in this area. He provides a theory of the basic grammatical operations and suggests that there is only one that is distinctive to language. If this theory is correct then this narrows the evolutionary gap between verbal and non-verbal primates, thus facilitating the rapid evolutionary emergence of our linguistic capacity.

Country	USA
Author	Norbert Hornstein
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780511466397
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer	Cambridge University Press
NumberOfPages	205
PublicationDate	2008-12-18
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
ReleaseDate	2008-12-18
Studio	Cambridge University Press

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