Words and Rules

The Ingredients of Language

Ranked #23 in Linguistics, Ranked #36 in Language

In Words and Rules, Steven Pinker explains the mysteries of language by examining a single construction from a dozen viewpoints, proposing that the essence of language is a mental dictionary of memorized words, and a mental grammar of creative rules. less

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