Language Change, Variation, and Universals

by Peter W Culicover

This volume explores how human languages become what they are, why they differ from one another in certain ways but not in others, and why they change in the ways that they do. Given that language is a universal creation of the human mind, the puzzle is why there are different languages at all: why do we not all speak the same language? Moreover, while there is considerable variation, in some ways grammars do show consistent patterns: why are languages...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198865392
• ISBN13: 9780198865391
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"