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The Indexical I' : The First Person in Thought and Language

Ingar Brinck
Hardcover - $247.95

The purpose of the book is twofold: to give a theory of reference for the indexical I' and to explain what is involved in thinking about oneself. The first part constitutes a critique of different solutions to the problem of how I' refers, while the ...

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Computing Meaning Volume 2

H. Bunt
Paperback - $139.95

This book is a collection of papers written by outstanding researchers in the newly emerging field of computational semantics. Computational semantics is concerned with the computation of the meanings of linguistic objects such as text fragments, spo ...

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Computing Meaning Volume 1

Harry Bunt
Hardcover - $344.95

Computational semantics is concerned with computing the meanings of linguistic objects such as sentences, text fragments, and dialogue contributions. As such it is the interdisciplinary child of semantics, the study of meaning and its linguistic enco ...

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Computing Meaning Volume 2

Harry C. Bunt
Hardcover - $346.95

This book is a collection of papers written by outstandingresearchers in the newly emerging field of computational semantics.Computational semantics is concerned with the computation of themeanings of linguistic objects such as text fragments, spoken ...

Book cover for Ronnie Cann: Formal Semantics

Formal Semantics

Ronnie Cann
Hardcover - $245.95

This accessible introduction to formal, and especially Montague, semantics within a linguistic framework, presupposes no previous background in logic, but takes students step-by-step from simple predicate/argument structures and their interpretation ...

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Formal Semantics

Ronnie Cann
Paperback - $92.95

This accessible introduction to formal, and especially Montague, semantics within a linguistic framework, presupposes no previous background in logic, but takes students step-by-step from simple predicate/argument structures and their interpretation ...

Book cover for Guglielmo Cinque: Adverbs and Functional Heads

Adverbs and Functional Heads : A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Guglielmo Cinque
Paperback - $200.95

One of the world's leading syntacticians presents evidence for locating Adverb Phrases in the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a novel and well articulated theory of the clause. In this theory, both adverbs and heads, which encode ...

Book cover for Herbert H. Clark: Using Language

Using Language

Herbert H. Clark
Paperback - $86.95

In this, his major work to date, Herbert Clark sets out the thesis that language use is really a form of joint action. A joint action is one thing that is carried out by an ensemble of people acting in coordination with each other.

Book cover for Bernard Comrie: The Atlas of Languages

The Atlas of Languages : The Origin and Development of Languages Throughout the World

Bernard Comrie
Hardcover - $52.95

The origins of language have long been the subject of myth and conjecture. Today

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The World's Major Languages

Bernard Comrie
Paperback - $98.95

From English, French, Spanish and Russian to Pashto, Tagalog, and Swahili, this is the first comprehensive reference work to provide detailed information about the world's forty major languages. Written by acknowledged specialists in the field, the v ...

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