The Biolinguistic Enterprise: New Perspectives on the Evolution and Nature of the Human Language Faculty

Author:   Anna Maria Di Sciullo (Professor of Linguistics, University of Quebec in Montreal and Director of the Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Interface Asymmetries) ,  Cedric Boeckx (Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA) and Department of Linguistics at the Universitat de Barcelona)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199553280


Pages:   576
Publication Date:   17 March 2011
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Anna Maria Di Sciullo (Professor of Linguistics, University of Quebec in Montreal and Director of the Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Interface Asymmetries) ,  Cedric Boeckx (Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA) and Department of Linguistics at the Universitat de Barcelona)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.854kg
ISBN:  

9780199553280


ISBN 10:   0199553289
Pages:   576
Publication Date:   17 March 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Overall, the quality of work is high. ... The collection reveals connections across projects and shows how research from different fields substantiates the idea that human language is - and is to be studied as - a biological phenomenon. * Paul Pietroski, Language * Recommended in the Times Higher Education Guide to Textbooks in Languages and Linguistics


Recommended in the Times Higher Education Guide to Textbooks in Languages and Linguistics


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Anna Maria Di Sciullo is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Quebec in Montreal and the director of the Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Interface Asymmetries. She held visiting positions at MIT and at the University of Venice. She is the author of Asymmetry in Morphology (2005), UG and External Systems (2005), Asymmetry in Grammar (2003), Projections and Interface Conditions: Essays on Modularity (1997), and co-authored with Edwin Williams On the Definition of Word (1987). She is the founder of the International Network on Biolinguistics. Cedric Boeckx is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), and a member of the Center for Theoretical Linguistics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Most recently he was Associate Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University. He is the author of Islands and Chains (2003), Linguistic Minimalism (2006), Understanding Minimalist Syntax (2007), Bare Syntax (2008), and Language in Cognition (2009); and the founding co-editor, with Kleanthes K. Grohmann, of the Open Access journal Biolinguistics.

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