Words and rules: the ingredients of language / Steven Pinker
1999, 1st Edition. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #340950
ISBN: 0297816470
Physical description: xi, 348 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. Contents: The infinite library -- Dissection by linguistics -- Broken telephone -- In single combat -- Word nerds -- Of mice and men -- Kids say the darnedest things -- The horrors of the German language -- The black box -- A digital mind in an analog world. Summary: In Words and Rules, Steven Pinker explains the mysteries of language by examining a single construction from a dozen viewpoints, positing that the essence of language is a mental dictionary of words, and a mental grammar of creative rules. Subjects: Language acquisition.
Language and languages. Grammar, Comparative and general Verb. Verbs. Linguistics. Language processing.
Price: €10.95