Explaining Language Universals

Hawkins, John A.

ISBN 10: 0631155341 / ISBN 13: 9780631155348

Published by Blackwell Pub, 1988

About this Item

[From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Small tears to jacket. Clean, unmarked pages. xiii, 398 p., diagrams, 23 cm. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Explaining Language Universals
• Publisher: Blackwell Pub
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631155341
• ISBN 13: 9780631155348
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Linguistics

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Synopsis

Thirty papers written for this volume discuss various biological, social, psychological, and linguistic theories of why there are elements universal to all languages. American, Dutch, German, and British contributors draw from psycholinguistics and artificial intelligence as well as linguistics proper. For advanced students. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.