What is it about?
both books argue that syntactic theory must be sharply recase to make it accountable to biology (and in one case also physics).
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Why is it important?
brings out the struggles that syntacticians have in bringing the Chomskyan model into line with current thinking about the evolution of human language
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This page is a summary of: Thomas S. Stroik and Michael T. Putnam: The structural design of language / Denis Bouchard: The nature and origin of language, Linguistic Typology, January 2015, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2015-0014.
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