عنوان

A brief history of the verb to be /

شابک

0262343606

شابک

9780262343602

شابک اشتباه

9780262037129

عنوان اصلي

A brief history of the verb to be /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Andrea Moro ; translated by Bonnie McClellan-Broussard.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Cambridge, Massachusetts :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

MIT Press

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

[2017]

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (xv, 288 pages) :

ساير جزييات

illustrations

متن يادداشت

Published in arrangement with The Italian Literary Agency. Translated from the Italian.

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

Beginning with the early works of Aristotle, the interpretation of the verb "to be" runs through Western linguistic thought like Ariadne's thread. As it unravels, it becomes intertwined with philosophy, metaphysics, logic, and even with mathematics -- so much so that Bertrand Russell showed no hesitation in proclaiming that the verb "to be" was a disgrace to the human race. With the conviction that this verb penetrates modern linguistic thinking, creating scandal in its wake and, like a Trojan horse of linguistics, introducing disruptive elements that lead us to rethink radically the most basic structure of human language -- the sentence -- Andrea Moro reconstructs this history. From classical Greece to the dueling masters of medieval logic through the revolutionary geniuses from the seventeenth century to the Enlightenment, and finally to the twentieth century -- when linguistics became a driving force and model for neuroscience -- the plot unfolds like a detective story, culminating in the discovery of a formula that solves the problem even as it raises new questions -- about language, evolution, and the nature and structure of the human mind. While Moro never resorts to easy shortcuts, "A Brief History of the Verb To Be isn't burdened with inaccessible formulas and always refers to the broader picture of mind and language. In this way it serves as an engaging introduction to a new field of cutting-edge research.

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

MIT Press

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

MIT Press

شماره انبار

10950

شماره انبار

9780262343602

عنوان

Brief history of the verb to be.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9780262037129

موضوع مستند نشده

English language-- Grammar, Historical.

موضوع مستند نشده

English language-- Verb phrase.

موضوع مستند نشده

Phraseology.

موضوع مستند نشده

English language-- Grammar, Historical.

موضوع مستند نشده

English language-- Verb phrase.

موضوع مستند نشده

Phraseology.

موضوع مستند نشده

LAN-- 009000

موضوع مستند نشده

LAN-- 009010

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Moro, Andrea

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

McClellan-Broussard, Bonnie

تاريخ عمليات

20200822104935.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y