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| ISBN: | 9780191559624
0191559628
9780199299782
0199299781
9780199202683
0199202680
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This book considers the evolution of the grammatical structure of words in the more general contexts of human evolution and the origins of language. The consensus in many fields is that language is well designed for its purpose, and became so either through natural selection or by virtue of non-biological constraints on how language must be structured. Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy argues that in certain crucial respects language is not optimally designed. This can be seen, he suggests, in the existence of not one but two kinds of grammatical organization - syntax and morphology - and in the morpho.
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| Other form: | Print version: Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew. Evolution of Morphology. Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2010 9780199299782
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| Standard no.: | 9786612383090
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