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mitpress.mit.edu WHY ONLY US Language and Evolution Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky “Explaining the origins of the unique is famously difficult. Through elegantly showing the simplicity of the underlying mechanism, Berwick and Chomsky adroitly surmount this problem in the case of that most remarkable of all human uniquenesses, our possession of language.” —Ian Tattersall, author of The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: And Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution The MIT Press CREATING LANGUAGE Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater foreword by Peter W. Culicover “Our understanding of language— its evolution, acquisition, and pro- cessing—is undergoing a seismic shift and this engaging, ambitious book clarifies and motivates the new exciting landscape.” —Adele E. Goldberg, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University NEW LINGUISTIC INQUIRY MONOGRAPHS CONCEPTS, SYNTAX, AND THEIR INTERFACE The Theta System Tanya Reinhart edited by Martin Everaert, Marijana Marelj, and Eric Reuland A systematic exposition of Rein- hart’s Theta System, with extensive annotations and essays that cap- ture subsequent developments. Linguistic Inquiry Monographs CONTIGUITY THEORY Norvin Richards An argument that the word order of a given language is largely predictable from independently observable facts about its phonol- ogy and morphology. Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
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WHY ONLY USLanguage and Evolution
Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky“Explaining the origins of the unique is famously difficult. Through elegantly showing the simplicity of the underlying mechanism, Berwick and Chomsky adroitly surmount this problem in the case of that most remarkable of all human uniquenesses, our possession of language.”
—Ian Tattersall, author of The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: And Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution
The MIT Press
CREATING LANGUAGEIntegrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing
Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chaterforeword by Peter W. Culicover
“Our understanding of language—its evolution, acquisition, and pro-cessing—is undergoing a seismic shift and this engaging, ambitious book clarifies and motivates the new exciting landscape.”
—Adele E. Goldberg, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
NEW LINGUISTIC INQUIRY MONOGRAPHS
CONCEPTS, SYNTAX, AND THEIR INTERFACEThe Theta System
Tanya Reinhartedited by Martin Everaert, Marijana Marelj, and Eric Reuland
A systematic exposition of Rein-hart’s Theta System, with extensive annotations and essays that cap-ture subsequent developments.Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
CONTIGUITY THEORYNorvin RichardsAn argument that the word order of a given language is largely predictable from independently observable facts about its phonol-ogy and morphology.Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
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