Language Universals by Morten H. Christiansen

Language Universals

Morten H. Christiansen

312 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Languages differ from one another in bewildering and seemingly arbitrary ways. For example, in English, the verb precedes the direct object ('understand the proof'), but in Japanese, the direct object comes first. In some languages, such as Mohawk...

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