Conceptual structure and syntax

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (1):202-202 (1995)
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The syntactic structures of natural languages reflect conceptual categories more directly than they reflect communicative categories. This fact supports the main premise of the target article, namely, that the most important event in language evolution was the development of a hierarchical conceptual structure.

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10.1017/s0140525x00038115

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