In this important and pioneering book Frederick Newmeyer takes on the question of language variety. He considers why some language types are impossible and why

In this important and pioneering book Frederick Newmeyer takes on the question of language variety. He considers why some language types are impossible and why

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This book collects the contributions presented at the international congress held at the University of Bologna in January 2007, where leading scholars of differ

Languages differ from one another in bewildering and seemingly arbitrary ways. For example, in English, the verb precedes the direct object ('understand the pro