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The German Perfect : Its Semantic Composition and Its Interactions with Temporal Adverbials
Renate Musan
Paperback - $138.95
This book provides an extensive account of perfect constructions in German, of its numerous meaning effects, and of its interaction with temporal adverbials and temporal subclauses. By doing this, it takes the semantics of the whole German tense syst ...
Language Matters : A Guide to Everyday Questions about Language
Donna Jo Napoli
Paperback - $75.95
Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every ...
The Alternative Mathematical Model of Linguistic Semantics and Pragmatics
Vilem Novak
Hardcover - $340.95
In opposition to the classical set theory of natural language, Nov?k's highly original monograph offers a theory based on alternative and fuzzy sets. This new approach is firmly grounded in semantics and pragmatics, and accounts for the vagueness inh ...
Going Nucular : Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times
Geoffrey Nunberg
Paperback - $21.95
In his feisty and humorous essays, Nunberg cracks the codes embedded in many familiar terms used in media, business, technology, and politics to reveal unexpected insights about America's fractious society.
Semantic Processing for Finite Domains
Martha Stone Palmer
Paperback - $86.95
A primary problem in the area of natural language processing has been semantic analysis. This book looks at the semantics of natural languages in context. It presents an approach to the computational processing of English text that combines current t ...
The Use of Language
Prashant Parikh
Paperback - $59.95
Building on the work of J. L. Austin and Paul Grice, "The Use of Language develops an original and systematic game-theoretic account of communication, speaker meaning, and addressee interpretation, extending this analysis to conversational implicatur ...
Compositionality in Formal Semantics
Barbara H. Partee
Paperback - $126.95
Barbara H. Partee has played a central role in developing the now-flourishing field of formal semantics, bringing the formal semantic approach developed by logicians together with a linguistically sophisticated account of the syntax of natural langua ...
Logic and Lexicon : The Semantics of the Indefinite
Manfred Pinkal
Hardcover - $325.95
Semantic underspecification is an essential and pervasive property of natural language. This monograph provides a comprehensive survey of the various phenomena in the field of ambiguity and vagueness. The book discusses the major theories of semantic ...