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Mark C. Baker The Atoms Of Language (Paperback). Title: The Atoms Of Language. Using a twenty-year-old theory proposed by the world's greatest living linguist, Noam Chomsky, researchers have found that the similarities among languages are more profound than the differences. Further DetailsTitle: The Atoms Of Language Condition: New Description: Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it implies a fundamental commonality- and thus mutual intelligibility- of human thought.We are now on the verge of solving this problem. Using a twenty-year-old theory proposed by the world's greatest living linguist, Noam Chomsky, researchers have found that the similarities among languages are more profound than the differences. Languages whose grammars seem completely incompatible may in fact be structurally almost identical, except for a difference in one simple rule. The discovery of these rules and how they may vary promises to yield a linguistic equivalent of the Periodic Table of the Elements: a single framework by which we can understand the fundamental structure of all human language. This is a landmark breakthrough both within linguistics, which will herewith finally become a full-fledged science, and in our understanding of the human mind. Author: Mark C. Baker EAN: 9780465005222 Format: Paperback Country/Region of Manufacture: US ISBN-10: 0465005225 ISBN: 9780465005222 Language: English Item Height: 202mm Item Length: 126mm Item Width: 26mm Item Weight: 280g Genre: Language & Reference Subtitle: The Mind's Hidden Rules Of Grammar Publisher: Basic Books Release Date: 10/08/2002 Release Year: 2002 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
