附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-256) and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Studying the human language faculty; 2 Language as a mental organ; 3 Syntax; 4 Sound patterns in language; 5 Describing linguistic knowledge; 6 Phonetics and the I-linguistics of speech; 7 Morphology; 8 Language change; 9 "Growing" a language; 10 The organic basis of language; References; Index.
摘要:Challenging and original, The Language Organ treats human language as the manifestation of a faculty of the mind, a mental organ whose nature is determined by human biology and whose functional properties should be explored just as physiology explores the functional properties of physical organs.
