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The Wonders of Language

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Wonders of Language

By Ian Roberts

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About the book

Ian Roberts offers a stimulating introduction to our greatest gift as a species: our capacity for articulate language. We are mostly as blissfully unaware of the intricacies of the structure of language as fish are of the water they swim in. We live in a mental ocean of nouns, verbs, quantifiers, morphemes, vowels and other rich, strange and deeply fascinating linguistic objects. This book introduces the reader to this amazing world. Offering a thought-provoking and accessible introduction to th...Show more

Grammar, syntax and morphology

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9781316604410

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2017

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The Wonders of Language

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