Evolutionary Psychology
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Larry Trask reviews The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar by Mark C. Baker
Since the pioneering work of Joseph Greenberg in the 1960s, linguists have realized that the grammars of languages do not normally consist of arbitrary collections of properties, but that instead they tend strongly to fall into more-or-less well-defined constellations of properties. In spite of a great deal of investigation, the reasons for these consistent - though far from exceptionless - ...
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