The Language Instinct - How the Mind Creates Language

Good used condition with sun-faded spine and shelf wear.

How do we `know' how to speak? In his landmark book Pinker shows how language is part of our genetic inheritance rather than a cultural creation. Destroying the myths about language - that children learn to talk by copying their parents, that grammatical standards are in decline, that English defies logic - Pinker reveals the innate human instinct to communicate that we are all born with...