Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

Foundations of Language shows one of the most fundamental new thinkings in linguistics since Noam Chomskyis Aspects of the Theory of Syntax in 1965. Foundations of Language opens up vivid new perspectives on every major aspect of language and communication: grammar vocabulary, learning, origins of language, and the relationship of language and thought to the real world. It puts linguistics at the centre of the search for understanding human nature and human cognition. In my opinion, the author presents in this book a broad survey in linguistics, introducing his personal perspective in the field of theoretical linguistics. Ray Jackendoff proposes a new holistic theory of the relation between the sounds,…