Learnability
and Cognition

Pinker’s study of how children learn which verbs take which argument structures, in the MIT Press series Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change. Copyright 1989; this copy is the FIRST MIT PRESS PAPERBACK EDITION, 1991. ISBN 0-262-16111-7 hardcover, 0-262-66073-3 paperback; set in Times Roman. The cover reproduces Tenniel’s Mad Hatter and March Hare dunking the Dormouse in the teapot — an illustration of the argument-structure problem that gives the book its running example.