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The Structural Design of Language

By Thomas S. Stroik, Michael T. Putnam

In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems.

Academic Paper

Title:	Guthrie, Malcolm (1903-1972)
Author:	Sean C. O'Rourke
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Homepage:	http://www.yale.edu/linguist/students/orourke.html
Linguistic Field:	History of Linguistics
Abstract:	This article is a short biography of Malcolm Guthrie, best known for his extensive research on the comparative linguistics of the Bantu languages of sub-Saharan Africa. His classification of the Bantu languages is still widely used today.
Type:	Individual Paper
Status:	Completed
Venue:	Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed.
Publication Info:	Keith Brown (ed.). Oxford: Elsevier. 179-181 (vol. 5/14)

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