TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moro,Andrea
TI  - Impossible languages
SN  - 9780262335621
AV  - P132 
U1  - 401 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Biolinguistics
KW  - Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
KW  - Syntaxe
KW  - Biolinguistique
KW  - Analyse linguistique (Linguistique)
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2016; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Specialized
N2  - 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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