The Primacy of Grammar
- Authors
- Mukherji, Nirmalangshu
- Publisher
- MIT Press (MA)
- Tags
- criticism , language and languages - philosophy , linguistics , 026201405x 9780262014052 , general , language arts & disciplines , biolinguistics , philosophy , language and languages , grammar & punctuation
- ISBN
- 9780262014052
- Date
- 2010-04-28T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.62 MB
- Lang
- en
Biolinguistics - especially the work of Noam Chomsky - suggests that the design of language may be 'perfect': language is an optimal solution to conditions of sound and meaning. What is the scope of this inquiry? Which aspect of nature does this science investigate? This book is a study of such foundational questions.