Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

by Ray S. Jackendoff

Book Overview

Already hailed as a masterpiece, Foundations of Language offers a brilliant overhaul of the last thirty-five years of research in generative linguistics and related fields. "Few books really deserve the clich 'this should be read by every researcher in the field, '" writes Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct, "But Ray Jackendoff's Foundations of Language does."
Foundations of Language offers a radically new understanding of how language,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198270127
• ISBN13: 9780198270126
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 506 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.6" x 7.0"