%0 Journal Article %A Haspelmath, Martin %+ Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society %T The language system is abstract but cannot be understood without its social functions : %G eng %U https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-F34F-9 %F EDOC: 573655 %R 10.1515/THLI.2011.004 %D 2011 %J Theoretical Linguistics %V 37 %N 1-2 %& 45 %P 45 - 50