• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The philosophy of universal grammar
  • Contributor: Hinzen, Wolfram [Author]; Sheehan, Michelle [VerfasserIn]; Sheehan, Michelle [Other]
  • imprint: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014
  • Extent: 1 online resource
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654833.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780191747977
  • Identifier:
  • RVK notation: ET 100 : Allgemeines, Theorie, Begriff, Typologie, Methode
  • Keywords: Universalgrammatik > Sprachphilosophie
    Variationslinguistik
    Biolinguistik
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 2, 2013)
  • Description: This text considers the relationship between language and thought from a philosophical perspective, drawing both on the philosophical study of language and the purely formal study of grammar, and arguing that the two should align. Evidence is considered from biology, the evolution of language, language disorders, and linguistic phenomena.