This book proposes a radical alternative to dominant views of the evolution of language, in particular the origins of syntax. The authors draw on evidence from

Develops a theory of how language is processed in the brain and provides a state-of-the-art review of current neuroscientific debates.

This book is about the limits of machine translation. It is widely recognized that machine translation systems do much better on domain-specific controlled-lang

In On Nature and Language Noam Chomsky develops his thinking on the relation between language, mind and brain, integrating current research in linguistics into

Why a book on the nature of language? The answer is surprising in this new book by Bill VanPatten. Language just isn't what most of us think it is-and because o