Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
397 pages
|Published: 28 Oct 1999
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ISBN: 9780753810255
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publication date: 1 January 2000
Description
In Words and Rules, Steven Pinker explains the mysteries of language by examining a single construction from a dozen viewpoints, proposing that the essence of language is a mental dictionary of memorized words, and a mental grammar of creative rules.
