Words and Rules
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In Words and Rules, Steven Pinker explores profound mysteries of language by picking a deceptively simple phenomenon -- regular and irregular verbs -- and...
Published By Basic Books
Format Paperback
Category
Number Of Pages 384
Publication Date 07/14/2015
ISBN 9780465072705
Dimensions 5.5 inches x 8.75 inches
"[An] excellent work of popular science."—Thomas Nagel, New Republic
"the book provides a scholarly, persuasive, enjoyable, and eminently readable account of important language phenomena."—Nature
"Compelling and revelatory."—Guardian
"An intellectual joyride."—Globe and Mail
"Not only does Pinker breathe life into the topic, he makes the reading breathtakingly exciting."—Montreal Gazette
"A fascinating voyage of discovery."—Sunday Telegraph
"MIT linguist Pinker builds on his previous successes (How the Mind Works; The Language Instinct) with another book explaining how we learn and deploy word, phrase and utterance... The result, with its crisp prose and neat analogies, makes required reading for anyone interested in cognition and language."—Publishers Weekly