Publications

Publication details [#32258]

Newmeyer, Frederick J. 1991. Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language. Language & Communication 11 (1-2) : 3–28.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
functional constraint | linguistics | origins of human communication
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0271-5309
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper deals with language origins and the potential innateness of functional principles.