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...provides a ready and much-needed antidote to an excessive concern with modular linguistic systems and to the promissory notes of the computational approach....an important book. Givon will force many to think anew about contextual effects in language and in other forms of communication. He may even prove to be as potent a force as Chomsky has been. -Contemporary Psychology ...presents the most explicit statement to date of the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of his approach. -Lingua ....it makes an entertaining read....provides an extra dimension to Givon's work which is interesting to readers who are already to some extent 'in the know' about Givon's work of the past two decades. -Language in Society

""...provides a ready and much-needed antidote to an excessive concern with modular linguistic systems and to the promissory notes of the computational approach....an important book. Givon will force many to think anew about contextual effects in language and in other forms of communication. He may even prove to be as potent a force as Chomsky has been."" —Contemporary Psychology ""...presents the most explicit statement to date of the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of his approach."" —Lingua ""....it makes an entertaining read....provides an extra dimension to Givon's work which is interesting to readers who are already to some extent 'in the know' about Givon's work of the past two decades."" —Language in Society

"""...provides a ready and much-needed antidote to an excessive concern with modular linguistic systems and to the promissory notes of the computational approach....an important book. Givon will force many to think anew about contextual effects in language and in other forms of communication. He may even prove to be as potent a force as Chomsky has been."" —Contemporary Psychology ""...presents the most explicit statement to date of the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of his approach."" —Lingua ""....it makes an entertaining read....provides an extra dimension to Givon's work which is interesting to readers who are already to some extent 'in the know' about Givon's work of the past two decades."" —Language in Society"

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