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With this study of Maori and Chamorro, Sandra Chung and William Ladusaw make a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the formal semantic analysis of non-Indo-European languages. Their ultimate focus is on how the study of these Austronesian languages can illuminate the alternatives for semantic interpretation and their interaction with syntactic structure. Revisiting the analysis o…
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- 9780262270274
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 173 pages) :illustrations.
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Representing time in natural language :the dynamic interpretation of tense an…
"A Bradford book."Alice ter Meulen integrates current research in natural language semantics, with detailed analyses of English discourse, and logical tools from a variety of sources into an information theory that provides the foundation for computational systems to reason about change and the flow of time. The topic of temporal meaning in texts has received considerable attention in recent ye…
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- 0585355339
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- 1 online resource (xii, 144 pages)
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Representation theory
In this theoretical monograph, Edwin Williams demonstrates that when syntax is economical, it economizes on shape distortion rather than on distance. According to Williams, this new notion of economy calls for a new architecture for the grammatical system--in fact, for a new notion of derivation. The new architecture offers a style of clausal embedding--the Level Embedding Scheme--that predicti…
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- 9780262286282
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- 1 online resource (x, 285 pages).
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Relators and linkers :the syntax of predication, predicate inversion, and cop…
"A Bradford book."In Relators and Linkers, Marcel den Dikken presents a syntax of predication and the inversion of the predicate around its subject, emphasizing meaningless elements (elements with no semantic load) that play an essential role in the establishment and syntactic manipulation of predication relationships. One such element, the RELATOR, mediates the relationship between a predicate…
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- 9780262271486
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- 1 online resource (xi, 351 pages) :illustrations.
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Retooling :a historian confronts technological change
A humanistic account of the changing role of technology in society, by a historian and a former Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT.When Warren Kendall Lewis left Spring Garden Farm in Delaware in 1901 to enter MIT, he had no idea that he was becoming part of a profession that would bring untold good to his country but would also contribute to the death of his family's farm. In …
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- 9780262286299
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Restoring trust in American business
"This book examines the failure of "gatekeepers"--Corporate directors, regulators, auditors, lawyers, investment bankers, and business journalists - to stand between corporate misconduct and the public interest. Prominent scholars and corporate leaders argue that market pressures have made gatekeepers too focused on financial self-interest at the expense of the public good. Stronger professiona…
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- 9780262278560
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Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science.
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- 9780262287814
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- 1 online resource (872 pages)
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Seeing and visualizing :it's not what you think
"In Seeing and Visualizing Zenon Pylyshyn argues that seeing is different from thinking and that to see is not, as it may seem intuitively, to create an inner replica of the world. Pylyshyn examines how we see and how we visualize and why the scientific account does not align with the way these processes seem to us "from the inside." In doing so, he addresses issues in vision science, cognitive…
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- 9780262316316
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 563 pages) :illustrations.
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Schools for thought :a science of learning in the classroom
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269384
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- 1 online resource (x, 324 pages) :illustrations
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Representation and Recognition in Vision.
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