{"product_id":"impossible-languages-9780262549233","title":"Impossible Languages","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn investigation into the possibility of impossible languages, searching for the indelible “fingerprint” of human language.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan there be such a thing as an impossible human language? A biologist could describe an impossible animal as one that goes against the physical laws of nature (entropy, for example, or gravity). Are there any such laws that constrain languages? In this book, Andrea Moro—a distinguished linguist and neuroscientist—investigates the possibility of impossible languages, searching, as he does so, for the indelible “fingerprint” of human language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoro shows how the very notion of impossible languages has helped shape research on the ultimate aim of linguistics: to define the class of possible human languages. He takes us beyond the boundaries of Babel, to the set of properties that, despite appearances, all languages share, and explores the sources of that order, drawing on scientific experiments he himself help","brand":"MIT Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195168813399,"sku":"9780262549233","price":30.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780262549233.jpg?v=1763646617","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/impossible-languages-9780262549233","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}