Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
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From the author of the bestselling The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works comes an engaging, often hilarious, always insightful look at the philosophy of language. Nature - Poeppel Pinker unpacks a remarkable variety of facts associated with the distinction between regular and irregular English words and their structure. If you like (English) words and want to know why they are put together in the way they are, this book is defintely for you.
Prefaceix 1 The Infinite Library1 2 Dissection by Linguistics21 3 Broken Telephone47 4 In Single Combat83 5 Word Nerds121 6 Of Mice and Men147 7 Kids Say the Darnedest Things189 8 The Horrors of the German Language211 9 The Black Box241 10 A Digital Mind in an Analog world269 Glossary289 Notes297 References313 Index335
