Natural Causes of Language: Frames, Biases, and Cultural Transmission

by N J Enfield

Book Overview

What causes a language to be the way it is? Some features are universal, some are inherited, others are borrowed, and yet others are internally innovated. But no matter where a bit of language is from, it will only exist if it has been diffused and kept in circulation through social interaction in the history of a community. This book makes the case that a proper understanding of the ontology of language systems has to be grounded in the causal mechanisms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013284968
• ISBN13: 9781013284960
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"