Function, Selection, and Innateness: The Emergence of Language Universals

By Simon Kirby

Book Overview

This book is a powerful demonstration of the value of looking at language as an adaptive system, which reaches the heart of debates in linguistics and cognitive science on the evolution and nature of language. Simon Kirby combines functional and formal theories in order to develop a way of treating language as an adaptive system in which its communicative and formal roles have crucial and complimentary roles.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198238126
• ISBN13: 9780198238126
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"