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Universals in comparative morphology :suppletion, superlatives, and the struc…
An argument for, and account of linguistic universals in the morphology of comparison, combining empirical breadth and theoretical rigor. This groundbreaking study of the morphology of comparison yields a surprising result: that even in suppletion (the wholesale replacement of one stem by a phonologically unrelated stem, as in good-better-best) there emerge strikingly robust patterns, virtually…
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- 9780262305525
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) :illustrations.
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Intentions in communication
"A Bradford book."Intentions in Communication brings together major theorists from artificial intelligence and computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology whose work develops the foundations for an account of the role of intentions in a comprehensive theory of communication. It demonstrates, for the first time, the emerging cooperation among disciplines concerned with the fundamen…
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- 0585363692
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- 1 online resource (x, 508 pages) : illustrations.
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- 005 INT
Grammatical theory and bilingual codeswitching
Theoretically significant work on the grammar of codeswitching by the leading researchers in the field. Codeswitching is the alternate use of two or more languages among bilingual interlocutors. It is distinct from borrowing, which involves the phonological and morphological integration of a word from one language into another. Codeswitching involves the mixing of phonologically distinctive …
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- 9780262320351
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- 1 online resource (viii, 326 pages) :illustrations
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Types and tokens: On abstract objects
A consideration of the distinction between the spatiotemporal furniture of the world (tokens) and the types of which they are instances, and an argument that types exist. There is a widely recognized but infrequently discussed distinction between the spatiotemporal furniture of the world (tokens) and the types of which they are instances. Words come in both types and tokens—for example, th…
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- 9780262259279
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 180 pages) :illustrations
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Perception, cognition, and language :essays in honor of Henry and Lila Gleitman
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262316088
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- 1 online resource (x, 360 pages) :illustrations
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The dependencies of objects
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- 9780262285094
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- 1 online resource (xii, 197 pages) :illustrations.
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Distributed morphology today : morphemes for Morris Halle
"This festschrift honors Morris Halle, on the occasion of his 90th birthday, for his many foundational and lasting contributions to our understanding of morphology."This book offers a snapshot of current research in distributed morphology, highlighting the lasting influence of Morris Halle, a pioneer in generative linguistics. Distributed morphology, which integrates the morphological with the …
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- 9781461935650
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 262 pages)
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Investigations in universal grammar : a guide to experiments on the acquisiti…
This introductory guide to language acquisition research is presented within the framework of Universal Grammar, a theory of the human faculty for language. The authors focus on two experimental techniques for assessing children's linguistic competence: the Elicited Production task, a production task, and the Truth Value Judgment task, a comprehension task. Their methodologies are designed to o…
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- 0585360723
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- 1 online resource (ix, 342 pages).
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processing and acquisition of reference
This book brings together contributions by prominent researchers in the fields of language processing and language acquisition on topics of common interest: how people refer to objects in the world, how people comprehend such referential expressions, and how children acquire the ability to refer and to understand reference.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295888
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- 1 online resource (vi, 443 pages) :illustrations.
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Sensorimotor Cognition and Natural Language Syntax
A proposal that the syntactic structure of a sentence reporting a concrete episode in the world can be interpreted as a description of the sensorimotor processes involved in experiencing that episode.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1283707527
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- 1 online resource (xi, 392 pages) :illustrations
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