{"product_id":"9781575861890","title":"Bare Grammar: A Study of Language Invariants","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing on general algebraic notions of structure and symmetry, this volume explores the invariants of generative grammars, showing how structural notions in generative grammar are provably invariant in grammars, and specific morphemes are invariant in exactly the same sense in languages that have them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward Keenan and Edward Stabler’s analysis illustrates how relations such as the anaphor-antecedent relation can be invariant in all grammars, even if realized differently in different languages, and it argues that the existence of universal invariants does not assume that grammars of different languages are isomorphic. \u003ci\u003eBare Grammar\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately concludes that the relation between form and meaning is not entirely arbitrary.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Center for the Study of Language and Inf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055095857392,"sku":"9781575861890","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781575861890_p0.jpg?v=1763799019","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781575861890","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}