The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
In The Boundaries of Babel, Andrea Moro tells the story of an encounter between two cultures: contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences. The study of language within a biological context has been ongoing for more than fifty years. The development of neuroimaging technology offers new opportunities to enrich the "biolinguistic perspective"and extend it beyond an abstract framework for inquiry. As a leading theoretical linguist in the generative tradition and also a...
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An exploration of what research at the intersection of contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences can reveal about the constraints on the apparently chaotic variation in human languages.
Foreword Noam Chomsky Chomsky, NoamTranslators' notePrologue 11 Hidden Texture 72 Language in the Brain 1213 The Form of Grammar 189Epilogue 229References 231Name Index 245Subject Index 251
