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The Atoms of Languageby Mark C. BakerISBN 0465005225 (0-465-00522-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Atoms of Language'Book summary:Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it implies a fundamental commonality-and thus the mutual intelligibility-of human thought.We are now on the verge of answering this question. Using a twenty-year-old theory proposed by the world's greatest living linguist, Noam Chomsky, researchers have found that the similarities among languages are more profound than the differences. Languages whose grammars seem completely incompatible may in fact be structurally almost identical, except for a difference in one simple rule. The discovery of these rules and how they may vary promises to yield a linguistic equivalent of the Periodic Table of the Elements: a single framework by which we can understand the fundamental structure of all human language. This is a landmark breakthrough, both within linguistics, which will thereby become a full-fledged science for the first time, and in our understanding of the human mind.[via] 
The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammarby Mark C. BakerISBN 019860632X (0-19-860632-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Incorporationby Mark C. BakerISBN 0226035425 (0-226-03542-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns, and Adjectivesby Mark C. Baker , S. R. Anderson, J. Bresnan, B. Comrie, W. DresslerISBN 0521001102 (0-521-00110-2)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lexical Categories : Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives'Book summary:Mark C. Baker investigates the fundamental nature of nouns, verbs, and adjectives. He claims that the various superficial differences found in particular languages have a single underlying source which can be used to provide better definitions of these "parts of speech". The new definitions are supported by data from languages from every continent. Baker's book argues for a formal, syntax-oriented, and universal approach to the parts of speech, as opposed to the functionalist, semantic, and relativist approaches that have dominated the subject. [via]
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The Polysynthesis Parameterby Mark C. BakerISBN 0195093089 (0-19-509308-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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The Syntax of Agreement and Concordby Mark C. BakerISBN 0521671566 (0-521-67156-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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