The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates the Gift of Language.

PINKER, Steven.

Item Number: 44057

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1994.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Steven Pinker on the half title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing.

In Language Instinct, Steven Pinker one of the world's experts on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America.