Overview
This groundbreaking study of how children acquire language and the effects on language change over the generations draws on a wide range of examples. The book covers specific syntactic universals and the nature of syntactic change. It reviews the language-learning mechanisms required to acquire an existing linguistic system (accurately and to impose further structure on an emerging system) and the evolution of language(s) in relation to this learning mechanism.
- | Author: E. J. Briscoe
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Sep 16, 2002
- | Number of Pages: 360 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0521662990
- | ISBN-13: 9780521662994
