Volume 49, Number 4 · March 14, 2002
'Sneaked' or 'Snuck'?
By John R. Searle
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
by Steven Pinker
HarperPerennial, 349 pp., $14.00 (paper)
Unlike Noam Chomsky's ambitious recent work in linguistics, Steven Pinker's Words and Rules is a popular exposition of scholarly work on language. It succeeds in its aim of conveying a great deal of information in a lively and often humorous style.[1] The book has a simple thesis, often repeated:
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