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Formalizing the Dynamics of Information by Martina Faller 9781575862392
Booksplease Price: £61.20The 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... -
Formalizing the Dynamics of Information by Martina Faller 9781575862408
Booksplease Price: £29.91The 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: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.55In 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... -
Putting Linguistics into Speech Recognition: The Regulus Grammar Compiler by Manny Rayner 9781575865256
Booksplease Price: £61.68Most 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... -
Attribute-Value Logic and the Theory of Grammar by Mark Johnson 9780937073360
Booksplease Price: £21.20Because of the ease of their implementation, attribute-value based theories of grammar are becoming increasingly popular in theoretical linguistics as an alternative to transformational accounts and... -
Complex Predicates and Information Spreading in LFG by Avery D. Andrews 9781575861647
Booksplease Price: £17.23This book provides a simple but precise framework for describing complex predicates and related constructions, and applies it principally to the analysis of complex predicates in Romance, and certain... -
Short Introduction to Modal Logic by Grigori Mints 9780937073766
Booksplease Price: £43.22Modal Logic can be characterized as the logic of necessity and possibility, of 'must be' and 'may be'. A Short Introduction to Modal Logic presents both semantic and syntactic features of the subject... -
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... -
Coverbs and Complex Predicates in Wagiman by Stephen Wilson 9781575861739
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £51.05Wagiman is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by about ten people in the top end of the Northern Territory. It possesses an unusual open class of words which Wilson calls 'coverbs'. Coverbs are... -
Computational Models of American Speech by M. Margaret Withgott 9780937073988
Booksplease Price: £21.69A 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... -
Euclid and His Twentieth Century Rivals: Diagrams in the Logic of Euclidean Geometry by Nathaniel Miller 9781575865089
Booksplease Price: £23.09Twentieth-century developments in logic and mathematics have led many people to view Euclid's proofs as inherently informal, especially due to his use of diagrams. In "Euclid and His... -
Diversity in Language: Perspectives and Implications by Yo Matsumoto 9781575865362
Booksplease Price: £25.28What does linguistic diversity tell us about the human mind? In the comprehensive volume, "Diversity in Language", a renowned team of contributors assesses the intricacies of linguistic variation... -
Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms Donald E. Knuth (Stanford University, California) 9781575862125
Booksplease Price: £36.35Donald Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of methods for translating and defining programming languages to the creation of the TeX and METAFONT systems for desktop... -
Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction by Ivan A. Sag 9781575864006
Booksplease Price: £29.56This second edition of "Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction" expands and improves upon a truly unique introductory syntax textbook. Like the first edition its focus is on the development of... -
Reference and Reflexivity: 2nd Edition John Perry 9781575865249
Booksplease Price: £21.53In this volume John Perry develops his "reflexive-referential" account of indexicals, demonstratives, and proper names. For this new edition, Perry has added a preface and two chapters on... -
Representation and Inference for Natural Language: A First Course in Computational Semantics Patrick Blackburn 9781575864969
Booksplease Price: £23.40How can computers distinguish the coherent from the unintelligible, recognize new information in a sentence, or draw inferences from a natural language passage? Computational semantics is an exciting... -
Lexical Semantics in LFG by Miriam Butt 9781575865119
Booksplease Price: £65.81Available for the first time in years, "Lexical Semantics in LFG" is a reissue of the groundbreaking "Papers in Lexical Functional Grammar." It spans a diverse range of topics, including Italian... -
Topics in the Clausal Syntax of German by Judith Berman 9781575863627
Booksplease Price: £27.11This volume presents the first large-scale treatment of German syntax along the framework of lexical functional grammar (LFG), which well suits German's rich morphology and flexible word order... -
Selected Papers on Design of Algorithms by Donald E. Knuth 9781575865829
Booksplease Price: £35.82Donald E. Knuth has been making foundational contributions to the field of computer science for as long as computer science has been a field. His award-winning textbooks are often given credit for... -
Literature and Cognition by Jerry R. Hobbs 9780937073537
Booksplease Price: £43.78Cognitive science, with its guiding metaphor of the mind as a computer, has made substantial progress towards an understanding of how people comprehend and produce discourse. The essays in this book... -
Conversations with L'Heureux by John L'Heureux 9781575866017
Booksplease Price: £22.93This book presents a sequence of interviews between Dikran Karagueuzian and prolific fiction writer John L'Heureux that investigate the nature of writing fiction and the writer's need to write. This... -
Perspectives on Contexts by Paolo Bouquet 9781575865386
Booksplease Price: £32.45Most human thinking is thoroughly informed by context, but, until recently, theories of reasoning have concentrated on abstract rules and generalities that make no reference to this crucial factor... -
Logic, Convention, and Common Knowledge: A Conventionalist Account of Logic by Paul F. Syverson 9781575863917
Booksplease Price: £59.62One of the fundamental theses of this book is that logical consequence and logical truth are not simply given, but arise as conventions among the users of logic. Thus Syverson explains convention... -
Palin Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for Early Childhood Stammering Elaine Kelman (Speech and Language Therapist, Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children) 9780815358329
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Now available in a fully revised and updated second edition, this practical manual is a detailed guide to the Palin Parent-Child Interaction Therapy programme (Palin PCI) developed at the Michael... -
Language and Sexuality: Contesting Meaning in Theory and Practice by Kathryn Campbell 9781575863207
Booksplease Price: £23.87Language and Sexuality explores the question of how linguistic practices and ideologies relate to sexuality and sexual identity, opening with a discussion of the emerging field of "queer linguistics"... -
Three Demonstrations and a Funeral and Other Essays Maria de Ponte 9781881526933
Booksplease Price: £28.55A collaboration between three distinguished professors of linguistics and philosophy. The result of the collaboration between three distinguished philosophers, this book comprises the best sample of... -
English Syntax: An Introduction by Jong-Bok Kim 9781575865676
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £55.10Focusing on the descriptive facts of English, this volume provides a systematic introduction to English syntax for students with no prior knowledge of English grammar or syntactic analysis. "English... -
Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason by Michael E. Bratman
Booksplease Price: £20.26What happens to our conception of mind and rational agency when we take seriously future-directed intentions and plans and their roles as inputs into further practical reasoning? The author's initial... -
Computers in Education: A Half-Century of Innovation by Patrick Suppes
Booksplease Price: £30.43Described by the New York Times as a visionary "pioneer in computerized learning," Patrick Suppes (1922?2014) and his many collaborators at Stanford University conducted research on the... -
Nominals: Inside and out by Miriam Butt 9781575864747
Booksplease Price: £27.99Since the early 1970s, the proper treatment and nominals and nominalization has been fundamental to syntactic theory. And yet a satisfactory approach continues to prove elusive. Working within the... -
What is Said and What is Not by Carlo Penco 9781575866673
Booksplease Price: £28.55This volume contains essays that explore explicit and implicit communication through linguistic research. Taking as a framework Paul Grice's theories on "what is said," the contributors explore a... -
Theoretical Perspectives on Word Order in South Asian Languages by Miriam Butt 9781881526490
Booksplease Price: £30.39This volume presents a collection of papers on word order variation in the languages of South Asia. These languages are interesting precisely because they exhibit such great flexibility in their word... -
The Syntax of Negation in Russian: A Minimalist Approach by Sue Brown 9781575861685
Booksplease Price: £25.19This book offers a Minimalist analysis of certain syntactic phenomena in Russian associated with negation. These phenomena include the distribution of morphologically negative words and the pattern... -
Reasoning, Rationality and Probability by Maria Carla Galavotti 9781575865584
Booksplease Price: £24.98This volume broadens our concept of reasoning and rationality to allow for a more pluralistic and situational view of human thinking as a practical activity. Drawing on contributors across... -
Let's Speak Twi: A Proficiency Course in Akan Language and Culture Adams Bodomo 9781575866048
Booksplease Price: £21.78Let's Speak Twi is an introductory language-learning textbook for speakers of English and other languages who seek proficiency in Akan Twi, the most widely used and understood native language of... -
Lexical Relations by Jean-Pierre Koenig 9781575861760
Booksplease Price: £21.05The thrust of this book is to provide a model of lexical relations which reconciles the lexicon's idiosyncratic and productive aspects. Building on work in Head-Driven Phrase-Structure Grammar, an... -
Theoretical Perspectives on Word Order in South Asian Languages by Miriam Butt 9781881526506
Booksplease Price: £53.48This volume presents a collection of papers on word order variation in the languages of South Asia. These languages are interesting precisely because they exhibit such great flexibility in their word... -
Information Sharing: Reference and Preposition in Language Generation and Interpretation by Kees van Deemter 9781575864044
Booksplease Price: £31.22This book introduces the concept of information sharing as an area of cognitive science, defining it as the process by which speakers depend on "given" information to convey "new" information - an... -
Logic, Convention, and Common Knowledge: A Conventionalist Account of Logic by Paul F. Syverson
Booksplease Price: £25.22One of the fundamental theses of this book is that logical consequence and logical truth are not simply given, but arise as conventions among the users of logic. Thus Syverson explains convention... -
Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About Donald E. Knuth 9781575863269
Booksplease Price: £21.30How does a computer scientist understand infinity? What can probability theory teach us about free will? Can mathematical notions be used to enhance one's personal understanding of the Bible? This...