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Book cover for Victor Raskin: Semantic Mechanisms of Humor

Semantic Mechanisms of Humor

Victor Raskin
Hardcover - $377.95



Book cover for Yael Ravin: Polysemy

Polysemy : Theoretical and Computational Approaches

Yael Ravin
Hardcover - $427.95

Polysemy is a term used in semantic and lexical analysis to describe a word with multiple meanings. Although such words present few difficulties in everyday communication, they do pose near-intractable problems for linguists and lexicographers. The c ...

Book cover for Howard Richler: Take My Words

Take My Words : A Wordaholic's Guide to the English Language

Howard Richler
Paperback - $21.95

In this entertaining and informative book, Howard Richler invites readers to enjoy the pleasures to be found in exploring the language that is rapidly becoming the world's lingua franca. With over 400 varieties of English spoken today, words and idio ...

Book cover for Susan Rothstein: Events and Grammar

Events and Grammar

Susan Rothstein
Paperback - $70.95

In recent years, the study of events and their role as implicit arguments of predicates has been at the center of much important work in semantics and the syntax/semantics interface. This volume brings together fourteen original studies by leading sc ...

Book cover for Susan Rothstein: Predicates and Their Subjects, Series

Predicates and Their Subjects, Series : Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, Vol. 74

Susan Rothstein
Paperback - $72.95

Predicates and their Subjects is an in-depth study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation. Starting from where the author's 1983 dissertation left off, the book argues that there is syntactic con ...

Book cover for Susan Rothstein: Structuring Events

Structuring Events : A Study in the Semantics of Lexical Aspect

Susan Rothstein
Paperback - $115.95

"Structuring Events" presents a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect for anyone interested in the study of verb meanings.

Book cover for Paul Rowlett: Sentential Negation in French

Sentential Negation in French

Paul Rowlett
Paperback - $139.95

This is the first full-length study of sentential negation phenomena in French. Paul Rowlett assesses, from a generative perspective, the respective contribution made to the expression of clausal polarity by ne, pas, and elements such as jamais and p ...

Book cover for John I. Saeed: Semantics

Semantics

John I. Saeed
Hardcover - $163.95

This second edition of "Semantics "provides an engaging introduction to semantics for students new to the field.

Book cover for John I. Saeed: Semantics

Semantics

John I. Saeed
Paperback - $99.95

This second edition of "Semantics "provides an engaging introduction to semantics for students new to the field.

Book cover for Patrick Saint-Dizier: Computational Lexical Semantics

Computational Lexical Semantics

Patrick Saint-Dizier
Paperback - $153.95

Computational Lexical Semantics is one of the first volumes to provide models for the creation of various kinds of computerized lexicons for the automatic treatment of natural language, with applications to, among other things, machine translation, a ...

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