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Japanese/Korean Linguistics: v. 13 by Mutsuko Endo Hudson
RRP: £52.50Booksplease Price: £51.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781575865171Author Mutsuko Endo HudsonFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Centre for the Study of... -
A Natural History of Negation by Laurence R. Horn
Booksplease Price: £24.37This book offers a unique synthesis of past and current work on the structure, meaning, and use of negation and negative expressions, a topic that has engaged thinkers from Aristotle and the Buddha... -
Word Structure in Ngalakgan by Brett Baker 9781575865621
Booksplease Price: £36.32Ngalakgan is a non-configurational, polysynthetic, and agglutinative language of the Gunwinyguan family. "Word Structure in Ngalakgan" is the first major theoretical work on the phonology and... -
Words, Proofs and Diagrams by David Barker-Plummer 9781575864068
Booksplease Price: £26.68The past 20 years have witnessed an ever-increasing number of interdisciplinay research collaborations as computer scientists, logicians, linguists, philosophers, and psychologists all explore the... -
Phonology and Morphology of the Ciyao Verb by Armindo Ngunga 9781575862477
Booksplease Price: £45.49This book describes and analyzes the lexical phonology and morphology of the verb stem in Ciyao, a Bantu language spoken in Southern Malawi, Northwestern Mozambique, and Southern Tanzania. This is... -
Discourse and Cognition: Bridging the Gap by Jean-Pierre Koenig 9781575861142
Booksplease Price: £31.98This volume has brought together research from both 'cognitive' and 'functional' approaches to linguistics. The collection includes work from cognitive science disciplines whose concerns overlap with... -
Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 11 by Patricia Clancy
Booksplease Price: £33.96Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having couterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research,... -
Discourse and Cognition: Bridging the Gap by Jean-Pierre Koenig 9781575861159
Booksplease Price: £67.24This volume has brought together research from both 'cognitive' and 'functional' approaches to linguistics. The collection includes work from cognitive science disciplines whose concerns overlap with... -
Optimal Communication by Reinhard Blutner
Booksplease Price: £27.56This volume explores how the effectiveness of communication is shaped by aspects of semantics and pragmatics such as compositionality, the roles of the speaker and hearer, and the acquisition of... -
Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 9 by Mineharu Nakayama
Booksplease Price: £32.58Japanese and Korean are typologically quite similar, so a linguistic phenomenon in one language often has a counterpart in the other. The papers in this volume are intended to further compare and/or... -
Architectures, Rules, and Preferences: Variations on Themes by Joan W. Bresnan by Annie Zaenen 9781575865607
Booksplease Price: £30.95"Architectures, Rules, and Preferences" reflects the interests and honors the influence of Joan W. Bresnan's two decades of foundational work on Lexical-Functional Grammar. This comprehensive volume... -
Feature Logics, Infinitary Descriptions and Grammar by Bill Keller 9781881526254
Booksplease Price: £23.66Constraint and unification-based approaches to grammar have become increasingly popular in computational linguistics because of their flexibility and descriptive power. These approaches have... -
Metaphorically Speaking by Patti Nogales 9781575861586
Booksplease Price: £25.64One of the most fundamental tasks of a theory of metaphor is to explain what any given metaphorical utterance says in a way that is compatible with the framework provided by philosophy. Using clear... -
Metaphorically Speaking by Patti Nogales 9781575861593
Booksplease Price: £56.91One of the most fundamental tasks of a theory of metaphor is to explain what any given metaphorical utterance says in a way that is compatible with the framework provided by philosophy. Using clear... -
Optimal Communicaton by Reinhard Blutner 9781575865133
Booksplease Price: £65.59This volume explores how the effectiveness of communication is shaped by aspects of semantics and pragmatics such as compositionality, the roles of the speaker and hearer, and the acquisition of... -
Projecting Morphology by Louisa Sadler 9781575864693
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £62.30The separation of syntax and morphology is a major principle in contemporary lexicalist theories. The syntactic theory of Lexical-Functional Grammar recognizes this separation on a structural level... -
Stochastic Causality by Maria Carla Galavotti
Booksplease Price: £22.93The papers collected here focus on probabilistic causality, addressing topics such as the search for causal mechanisms, epistemic and metaphysical views of causality, Bayesian nets and causal... -
Projecting Morphology by Louisa Sadler 9781575864709
Booksplease Price: £29.94The separation of syntax and morphology is a major principle in contemporary lexicalist theories. The syntactic theory of Lexical-Functional Grammar recognizes this separation on a structural level... -
Partiality, Truth and Persistence by Tore Langholm 9780937073346
Booksplease Price: £21.69In recent years, 'semantical partiality' has emerged as an important concept in philosophical logic as well as in the study of natural language semantics. Despite the many applications, however, a... -
The Nature of Explanation in Linguistic Theory by John Moore 9781575864549
Booksplease Price: £28.99Elegant analyses by linguists have been a point of pride since the time of the Neogrammarians. But ever since Chomsky's pioneering work on the goals of linguistic theory, this descriptive emphasis... -
A Theory of Phonological Weight by Larry M. Hyman 9781575863283
Booksplease Price: £25.15With the reissue of this treatise, an instrumental step in the development of both moraic phonology and prosodic morphology becomes available again. This text presents a comprehensive treatment of... -
Revisiting the Essential Indexical by John Perry 9781684000616
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £43.52In this book, renowned philosopher John Perry responds to criticisms of his influential writing on "the essential indexical." He begins by explaining the conclusions of his past articles. He then... -
Tarski's World: Revised and Expanded Jon Barwise 9781575864846
Booksplease Price: £32.30"Tarski's World" is an innovative and exciting method of introducing students to the language of first-order logic. Using the courseware package, students quickly master the meanings of connectives... -
Holographic Reduced Representation: Distributed Representation for Cognitive Structures by Tony A. Plate 9781575864297
Booksplease Price: £28.04While neuroscientists garner success in identifying brain regions and in analyzing individual neurons, ground is still being broken at the intermediate scale of understanding how neurons combine to... -
Success with Languages by Linda Murphy
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.81Success with Languages is designed to help all students develop the skills they need to become an effective language learner and to make the most of language study.Written by experienced language... -
Morphology and the Web of Grammar: Essays in Memory of Steven G. Lapointe by C. Orhan Orgun 9781575864457
Booksplease Price: £74.91This collection presents papers in memory of Steven G. Lapointe, a distinguished professor of linguistics at the University of California, Davis, at the time of his death in 1999. Lapointe's work on... -
Algorithmes by Donald E. Knuth 9781575866208
Booksplease Price: £30.95This book is a French translation of seventeen papers by Donald E. Knuth on algorithms both in the field of analysis of algorithms and in the design of new algorithms. They cover fundamental concepts... -
Holographic Reduced Representation: Distributed Representation for Cognitive Structures by Tony A. Plate 9781575864303
Booksplease Price: £23.09While neuroscientists garner success in identifying brain regions and in analyzing individual neurons, ground is still being broken at the intermediate scale of understanding how neurons combine to... -
Meaning, Basic Self-Knowledge, and Mind: Essays on Tyler Burge by Maria Frapolli
Booksplease Price: £26.75This volume comprises a lively and thorough discussion between philosophers and Tyler Burge about Burge's recent, and already widely accepted, position in the theory of meaning, mind and knowledge... -
Putting Linguistics into Speech Recognition: The Regulus Grammar Compiler by Manny Rayner 9781575865263
Booksplease Price: £21.05Most computer programs that analyze spoken dialogue use a spoken command grammar, which limits what the user can say when talking to the system. To make this process simpler, more automated, and... -
Selected Papers on Discrete Mathematics Donald E. Knuth (Stanford University, California) 9781575862484
Booksplease Price: £33.10Donald Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of literate programming to the development of the TeX programming language. One of the foremost figures in the field of... -
Bare Grammar Edward Keenan (University of California, Los Angeles) 9781575861883
Booksplease Price: £17.69Without assuming arbitrary restrictions on grammar notation at the outset, 'Bare Grammars' aim to provide the most straightforward definitions of the constructions present in human languages,... -
Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive/Functional Research by Sally Rice 9781575866123
Booksplease Price: £25.28Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive/Functional Research consists of selected papers from the seventh meeting of the Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference, held at the... -
Formal and Empirical Issues in Optimality Theoretic Syntax by Peter Sells 9781575862446
Booksplease Price: £28.48This book collects recent work in OT-LFG (Optimality Theoretic Lexical Functional Grammar) which is developing the empirical coverage of the approach as well as the formal foundations of the OT... -
Language Learning, Digital Communications and Study Abroad: Identity and Belonging in Translocal Contexts Levi Durbidge 9781800415041
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £21.96This book argues for a view of study abroad as emergent of, and negotiated through, tensions between localised and globalised imaginaries of language, identity and place. By examining the experiences... -
Games, Logic, and Constructive Sets by Grigori Mints 9781575864495
Booksplease Price: £65.21Mathematical game theory has been embraced by a variety of scholars: social scientists, biologists, linguists, and now, increasingly, logicians. This volume illustrates the recent advances of game... -
Language Learning, Digital Communications and Study Abroad: Identity and Belonging in Translocal Contexts Levi Durbidge 9781800415058
RRP: £99.95Booksplease Price: £88.68This book argues for a view of study abroad as emergent of, and negotiated through, tensions between localised and globalised imaginaries of language, identity and place. By examining the experiences... -
Revisiting the Essential Indexical by John Perry
Booksplease Price: £23.87In this book, renowned philosopher John Perry responds to criticisms of his influential writing on "the essential indexical." He begins by explaining the conclusions of his past articles. He then... -
Structure, Alignment and Optimality in Swedish by Peter Sells 9781575862316
Booksplease Price: £52.34This volume explores the grammatical structure of sentences in Swedish, presenting an account of the order of the words and phrases within the clause. This analysis is presented from the perspective... -
Building on Frege: New Essays about Sense, Content and Concepts by Albert Newen
Booksplease Price: £29.25Philosopher-logican, Gottlob Frege's (1848-1924) work has recieved much attention. In his goal to solidify the foundations of mathematics and scientific work, Frege concieved a comprehensive...