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What kind of creatures are we? / Noam Chomsky.

What kind of creatures are we? / Noam Chomsky.

What kind of creatures are we? / Noam Chomsky.

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What kind of creatures are we? / Noam Chomsky.

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What kind of creatures are we? / Noam Chomsky.

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Publisher

New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Call Numbers

G 2016/765

Record Identifier

74VKzQNe2mll

MMS ID

991023559369702626

Language

English

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Physical content

xxiv, 167 pages ; 19 cm.

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

What is language? -- What can we understand? -- What is the common good? -- The mysteries of nature : how deeply hidden?.

Publication information

Publisher

New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Place of Publication

New York (State)

Date Published

[2016]

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Scope and Contents

Summary

A collection of lectures by the "founder of modern linguistics" discusses fifty years of scientific development in the study of language as he expounds and criticizes a variety of theories. --Publisher's description.

"In clear, precise, and non-technical language, Chomsky elaborates on fifty years of scientific development in the study of language, sketching how his own work has implications for the origins of language, the close relations that language bears to thought, and its eventual biological basis. He expounds and criticizes many alternative theories, su...

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What kind of creatures are we? / Noam Chomsky.

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Notes

General note

Columbia themes in philosophy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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G 2016/765

Record Identifier

74VKzQNe2mll

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzQNe2mll

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ISBN

0231175965 hardcover alkaline paper

9780231175968 hardcover alkaline paper

DDC

401

MMS ID

991023559369702626

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