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Words, Proofs and Diagrams by David Barker-Plummer 9781575864068
Booksplease Price: $34.42The past 20 years have witnessed an ever-increasing number of interdisciplinay research collaborations as computer scientists, logicians, linguists, philosophers, and psychologists all explore the... -
Words and Structure by Jane Grimshaw 9781575864211
Booksplease Price: $78.59What kinds of words can exist in natural languages? How are sentenced constructed? What is the relationship between a word and the sentence in which it appears. How do language learners figure all... -
Translating the Untranslatable: A Solution to the Problem of Generating English Determiners by Francis Bond 9781575864600
Booksplease Price: $33.95One of the biggest problems for automatic translation is dealing with words and inflections that are obligatory in the target language but not in the source. This work is the first to provide a fully... -
Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 11 by Patricia Clancy
Booksplease Price: $43.81Japanese 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,... -
Feature Logics, Infinitary Descriptions and Grammar by Bill Keller 9781881526254
Booksplease Price: $30.52Constraint and unification-based approaches to grammar have become increasingly popular in computational linguistics because of their flexibility and descriptive power. These approaches have... -
Japanese/Korean Linguistics: v. 13 by Mutsuko Endo Hudson
RRP: $67.73Booksplease Price: $66.86Apologies 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... -
Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 9 by Mineharu Nakayama
Booksplease Price: $42.03Japanese 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... -
Discourse and Cognition: Bridging the Gap by Jean-Pierre Koenig 9781575861142
Booksplease Price: $41.25This 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... -
Metaphorically Speaking by Patti Nogales 9781575861586
Booksplease Price: $33.08One 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: $73.41One 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: $84.61This 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... -
Optimal Communication by Reinhard Blutner
Booksplease Price: $35.55This 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... -
Generative Approaches to Finnic and Saami Linguistics by Diane Nelson 9781575864129
Booksplease Price: $46.41With unusual structural characteristics, Finnish and Saami offer interesting challenges to linguistic theories formulated around more popular languages. Grammatically, for instance, languages in the... -
Projecting Morphology by Louisa Sadler 9781575864709
Booksplease Price: $38.62The 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: $27.98In 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... -
Discourse and Cognition: Bridging the Gap by Jean-Pierre Koenig 9781575861159
Booksplease Price: $86.74This 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... -
A Theory of Phonological Weight by Larry M. Hyman 9781575863283
Booksplease Price: $32.44With 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... -
Architectures, Rules, and Preferences: Variations on Themes by Joan W. Bresnan by Annie Zaenen 9781575865607
Booksplease Price: $39.93"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... -
Revisiting the Essential Indexical by John Perry 9781684000616
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $56.14In 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... -
Projecting Morphology by Louisa Sadler 9781575864693
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $80.37The 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... -
Tarski's World: Revised and Expanded Jon Barwise 9781575864846
Booksplease Price: $41.67"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: $36.17While 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... -
Morphology and the Web of Grammar: Essays in Memory of Steven G. Lapointe by C. Orhan Orgun 9781575864457
Booksplease Price: $96.63This 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: $39.93This 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... -
Stochastic Causality by Maria Carla Galavotti
Booksplease Price: $29.58The 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... -
The Nature of Explanation in Linguistic Theory by John Moore 9781575864549
Booksplease Price: $37.40Elegant 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... -
Meaning, Basic Self-Knowledge, and Mind: Essays on Tyler Burge by Maria Frapolli
Booksplease Price: $34.51This 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... -
Selected Papers on Discrete Mathematics Donald E. Knuth (Stanford University, California) 9781575862484
Booksplease Price: $42.70Donald 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... -
Holographic Reduced Representation: Distributed Representation for Cognitive Structures by Tony A. Plate 9781575864303
Booksplease Price: $29.79While 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... -
Formalizing the Dynamics of Information by Martina Faller 9781575862408
Booksplease Price: $38.58The papers collected in this volume exemplify some of the trends in current approaches to logic, language and computation. Written by authors with varied academic backgrounds, the contributions are... -
Reference and Reflexivity by John Perry 9781575863092
RRP: $56.76Booksplease Price: $56.18In this volume, author John Perry develops a "reflexive-referential" account of indexicals, demonstratives and proper names. On these issues the philosophy of language in the 20th century was shaped... -
Success with Languages by Linda Murphy
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $30.71Success 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... -
Putting Linguistics into Speech Recognition: The Regulus Grammar Compiler by Manny Rayner 9781575865263
Booksplease Price: $27.15Most 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... -
Games, Logic, and Constructive Sets by Grigori Mints 9781575864495
Booksplease Price: $84.12Mathematical 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 9781800415041
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $28.33This 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... -
Bare Grammar Edward Keenan (University of California, Los Angeles) 9781575861883
Booksplease Price: $22.82Without 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,... -
Linguistic Databases by John A. Nerbonne 9781575860923
Booksplease Price: $38.78Linguistic Databases explores the increasing use of databases in linguistics. The enormous potential in linguistic data - billions of utterances and messages daily - has been difficult to exploit... -
Language Learning, Digital Communications and Study Abroad: Identity and Belonging in Translocal Contexts Levi Durbidge 9781800415058
RRP: $128.94Booksplease Price: $114.40This 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... -
Structure, Alignment and Optimality in Swedish by Peter Sells 9781575862316
Booksplease Price: $67.52This 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... -
Computational Models of American Speech by M. Margaret Withgott 9780937073988
Booksplease Price: $27.98A new perspective on phonetic variation is achieved in this volume through the construction of a series of models of spoken American English. In the past, computer theorists and programmers...