剧情简介:How does language work? How do children learn their mother tongue? Why do languages change over time, making Chaucer's English almost incomprehensible? Steven Pinker explains the profound mysteries of language by picking a deceptively simple single phenomenon and examining it from every angle. That phenomenon - the existence of regular and irregular verbs - connects an astonish...(展开全部)
作者:Steven Pinker
出版社:Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
ISBN:9780753810255