Constructing a Language: A Usage-based Theory of Language Acquisition
Book Details
- Publisher : Harvard U.P.
- Published : 2003
- Category :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 19118
- ISBN 13 : 9780674017641
- ISBN 10 : 0674017641
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Tomasello argues that the essence of language is its symbolic dimension, which rests on the uniquely human ability to comprehend intention. Grammar emerges as the speakers of the language create linguistic constructions out of recurring sequences of symbols.
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