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A major scientific breakthrough into the common elements of all languages, which give us a deeper insight than ever before into how the mind works. . Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it implies a fundamental commonality-and thus the mutual intelligibility-of human thought. We are now on the verge of answering this question. Using a twenty-year-old theory proposed by the world's greatest living linguist, Noam Chomsky, researchers have found that the similarities among languages are more profound than the differences. Languages whose grammars seem completely incompatible may in fact be structurally almost identical, except for a difference in one simple rule. The discovery of these rules and how they may vary promises to yield a linguistic equivalent of the Periodic Table of the Elements: a single framework by which we can understand the fundamental structure of all human language. This is a landmark breakthrough, both within linguistics, which will thereby become a full-fledged science for the first time, and in our understanding of the human mind.
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Mark C. Baker received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT in 1985. After teaching at MIT from 1985-1986, he became a professor at McGill University, where he taught from 1986 to 1998. Since 1998 he has been a professor in the Department of Linguistics and the Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He is an expert on African and Native American languages, having studied Mohawk, Edo, Chichewa, Winnebago, Nupe, Kinande, and Mapuche, as well as Spanish and Urdu. He lives
in New Jersey with his wife and three children. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
A major scientific breakthrough into the common elements of all languages, which give us a deeper insight than ever before into how the mind works. . Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it implies a fundamental commonality-and thus the mutual intelligibility-of human thought. We are now on the verge of answering this question. Using a twenty-year-old theory proposed by the world's greatest living linguist, Noam Chomsky, researchers have found that the similarities among languages are more profound than the differences. Languages whose grammars seem completely incompatible may in fact be structurally almost identical, except for a difference in one simple rule. The discovery of these rules and how they may vary promises to yield a linguistic equivalent of the Periodic Table of the Elements: a single framework by which we can understand the fundamental structure of all human language. This is a landmark breakthrough, both within linguistics, which will thereby become a full-fledged science for the first time, and in our understanding of the human mind.
About the Author
Mark C. Baker received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT in 1985. After teaching at MIT from 1985-1986, he became a professor at McGill University, where he taught from 1986 to 1998. Since 1998 he has been a professor in the Department of Linguistics and the Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He is an expert on African and Native American languages, having studied Mohawk, Edo, Chichewa, Winnebago, Nupe, Kinande, and Mapuche, as well as Spanish and Urdu. He lives
in New Jersey with his wife and three children. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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