Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution

At the close of the 19th century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. This book examines the construction of an urban-centred, industrial-based culture - an entirely new social reality based on science and technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Computation, Cognition, and Pylyshyn

"A Bradford book."A collection of cutting-edge work on cognition and a celebration of a foundational figure in the field.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Where Does Binding Theory Apply?

An exploration of the architecture of the grammar and nature of the lexical/functional split, this text reveals a relationship of greater subtlety and importance than is generally assumed.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Locality in Minimalist Syntax

Providing a reanalysis of minimalist syntax, Thomas Stroik considers the optimal design properties for human language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The national parks of Canada in Ontario

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Arguments as Relations

Bowers proposes a radically new approach to argument structure that has the potential to unify data from a wide range of different language types in terms of a simple and universal syntactic structure.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Agreement and Head Movement: Clitics, Incorporation, and Defective Goals

Here, Ian Roberts explores the consequences of Chomsky's conjecture that head-movement is not part of the narrow syntax the computational system that relates the lexicon to the interfaces.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Artificial Chemistries

The field of Artificial life (ALife) is now firmly established in the scientific world, but it has yet to achieve one of its original goals: an understanding of the emergence of life on Earth. The new field of artificial chemistries draws from chemistry, biology, computer science, mathematics, and other disciplines to work toward that goal. For if, as it has been argued, life emerged from pirmi…

Language and Equilibrium

In this work, Prashant Parikh offers a new account of meaning for natural language. He argues that equilibrium, or balance among multiple interacting forces, is a key attribute of language and meaning and shows how to derive the meaning of an utterance from first principles by modelling it as a system of interdependent games.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Why Agree? Why Move?: Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse-Configurational …

An argument that not only do movement and agreement occur in every language, they also work in tandem to imbue natural language with enormous expressive power. An unusual property of human language is the existence of movement operations. Modern syntactic theory from its inception has dealt with the puzzle of why movement should occur. In this monograph, Shigeru Miyagawa combines this question …