Impossible languages / Andrea Moro.

By:

Moro, Andrea [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2017Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type:

text
still image

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780262335621
026233562X
9780262335607
0262335603

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:

401 23

LOC classification:

P132

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Contents:

Learning from the impossible -- Capturing the stem mindâ -- Sentences as snowflakes -- The unreasonable sieve -- The boundaries of Babel -- Intermezzo or what exists when a tree exists? -- Toward the source of order -- The sound of thought -- The inverse thunderstorm -- Better than possible: designed languages -- A closer look at the turtle eyes.

Summary: Understanding the nature and the structure of human language coincides with capturing the constraints which make a conceivable language possible or, equivalently, with discovering whether there can be any impossible languages at all. This work explores these related issues, paralleling the effort of a biologist who attempts at describing the class of impossible animals.

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Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understanding the nature and the structure of human language coincides with capturing the constraints which make a conceivable language possible or, equivalently, with discovering whether there can be any impossible languages at all. This work explores these related issues, paralleling the effort of a biologist who attempts at describing the class of impossible animals.