Subjacency and Sex.

Lightfoot, David

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Publication Date: 1991

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Subjacency and Sex.

Lightfoot, David

Language and Communication, v11 n1-2 p67-69 1991

Responds to a previous article suggesting that the grammatical mode of communication arose via natural selection. The response focuses on the emergence of why the subjacency condition of Universal Grammar emerged. (JL)

Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Diachronic Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Syntax

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Language: English

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