David Adger
Scottish linguist; professor of linguistics at Queen Mary University of London, working on the human capacity for syntax; president of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain from 2015 to 2020.
Embassytown by China Miéville
I really enjoyed Embassytown because it wasn’t about Sapir-Whorf, but about the relationship between language and reality.
on fivebooks.com · 11 Nov 2019 · Report
Language and Experience by Barbara Landau & Lila Gleitman
Landau and Gleitman’s book, Language and Experience, I read first when I was a student, a long, long time ago.
on fivebooks.com · 11 Nov 2019 · Report
On Nature and Language by Noam Chomsky
I chose On Nature and Language because it’s more modern.
on fivebooks.com · 11 Nov 2019 · Report
The Language of Thought by Jerry Fodor
The Language of Thought is a really famous book in the philosophy of mind and it’s really important for linguistics as well.
on fivebooks.com · 11 Nov 2019 · Report
The Resilience of Language by Susan Goldin-Meadow
In The Resilience of Language she takes 20 or 30 years of her experimental work and shows her journey in exploring that.
on fivebooks.com · 11 Nov 2019 · Report
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