Impossible Languages (inbunden)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
160
Utgivningsdatum
2016-09-02
Utmärkelser
Winner of <PrizeName>Honorable Mention, 2017 PROSE Awards, Language and Linguistics</PrizeName> 2017
Förlag
MIT Press
Illustratör/Fotograf
2 b&w illus
Illustrationer
2 b&w illus.; 4 Illustrations, unspecified
Dimensioner
206 x 137 x 23 mm
Vikt
272 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
,
ISBN
9780262034890

Impossible Languages

av Andrea Moro
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2016-09-02
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An investigation into the possibility of impossible languages, searching for the indelible "fingerprint" of human language. Can there be such a thing as an impossible human language? A biologist could describe an impossible animal as one that goes against the physical laws of nature (entropy, for example, or gravity). Are there any such laws that constrain languages? In this book, Andrea Moro-a distinguished linguist and neuroscientist-investigates the possibility of impossible languages, searching, as he does so, for the indelible "fingerprint" of human language. Moro shows how the very notion of impossible languages has helped shape research on the ultimate aim of linguistics: to define the class of possible human languages. He takes us beyond the boundaries of Babel, to the set of properties that, despite appearances, all languages share, and explores the sources of that order, drawing on scientific experiments he himself helped design. Moro compares syntax to the reverse side of a tapestry revealing a hidden and apparently intricate structure. He describes the brain as a sieve, considers the reality of (linguistic) trees, and listens for the sound of thought by recording electrical activity in the brain. Words and sentences, he tells us, are like symphonies and constellations: they have no content of their own; they exist because we listen to them and look at them. We are part of the data.

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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.

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