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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451692803321

Autore

Moro Andrea

Titolo

The boundaries of Babel [[electronic resource] ] : the brain and the enigma of impossible languages / / Andrea Moro ; translated from Italian by Ivano Caponigro and Daniel B. Kane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008

ISBN

0-262-28020-5

1-4356-4878-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Current studies in linguistics ; ; 46

Disciplina

401

Soggetti

Biolinguistics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-243) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Translators' note; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 Hidden Texture; 2 Language in the Brain; 3 The Form of Grammar; Epilogue; References; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This text is 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.