Description: An investigation into the possibility of impossible languages, searching for the indelible "fingerprint" of human language.
Brief description: Andrea Moro is Professor of General Linguistics at the Institute for Advanced Study (IUSS) in Pavia, Italy. He is the author of Dynamic Antisymmetry, Impossible Languages, and The Boundaries of Babel (all published by the MIT Press), and other books, including The Raising of Predicates and I Speak, Therefore I Am.
Review Quotes: "Impossible Languages is written in a succinct and easy-to-follow style, focusing on what makes human language distinct from any other communication system."
-Journal of Universal Language