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Conceptual structure and syntax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Frederick J. Newmeyer
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195fjn@u.washington.edu

Abstract

The syntactic structures of natural languages reflect conceptual categories more directly than they reflect communicative categories. This fact supports the main premise of the target article, namely, that the most important event in language evolution was the development of a hierarchical conceptual structure.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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