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The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
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Moro, Andrea

This text is an exploration of what research at the intersection of contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences can reveal about the constraints on the apparently chaotic variation in human languages.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262280204
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1 online resource (xvi, 257 pages) :illustrations.
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A Brief History of the Verb To Be
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Moro, Andrea,McClellan-Broussard, Bonnie,

Beginning with the early works of Aristotle, the interpretation of the verb "to be" runs through Western linguistic thought like Ariadne's thread. As it unravels, it becomes intertwined with philosophy, metaphysics, logic, and even with mathematics -- so much so that Bertrand Russell showed no hesitation in proclaiming that the verb "to be" was a disgrace to the human race. With the conviction …

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0262343606
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1 online resource (xv, 288 pages) :illustrations
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The secrets of words
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Chomsky, Noam,Moro, Andrea,

Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising facts, and potentially permanent mysteries. In The Secrets of Words , influential linguist Noam Chomsky and his longtime colleague Andrea Moro have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on such topics as language and linguistics, the history of science, and the relation between language and the brain…

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9780262369053
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1 online resource (208 pages).
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