This book addresses the issue of why language is a unique and specific means of communication among species and argues for a radical separation between language

This book offers the latest insights on language documentation, a reborn, refashioned, and reenergized subfield of linguistics motivated by the urgent task of c

There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, why language is not communication and com

Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific abili

Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type