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On the syntactic composition of manner and motion
Unlike many books and articles that discuss the relation between constructional meaning and the lexicon, 'On the Syntactice Composition of Manner and Motion' examines one phenomenon in detail: the articulation of manner and motion, in three distinct language families - Germanic, Korean, and Romance.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286657
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- 1 online resource (viii, 228 pages) :illustrations.
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Complex Demonstratives: A Quantificational Account
"A Bradford book."Since the late 1970s, the orthodox view of complex 'that' phrases (e.g., 'that woman eating a granola bar') has been that they are contextually sensitive devices of direct reference. In Complex Demonstratives, Jeffrey King challenges that orthodoxy, showing that quantificational accounts not only are as effective as direct reference accounts but also handle a wider range of da…
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- 9780262277174
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 207 pages).
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Computation and Cognition: Toward a Foundation for Cognitive Science
The question, "What is Cognitive Science?" is often asked but seldom answered to anyone's satisfaction. Until now, most of the answers have come from the new breed of philosophers of mind. This book, however, is written by a distinguished psychologist and computer scientist who is well-known for his work on the conceptual foundations of cognitive science, and especially for his research on ment…
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- 9780262281997
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 292 pages) :illustrations
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Optimality-theoretic syntax
Recent work in theoretical syntax has revealed the strong explanatory power of the notions of economy, competition, and optimization. Building grammars entirely upon these elements, Optimality Theory syntax provides a theory of universal grammar with a formally precise and strongly restricted theory of universal typology: cross-linguistic variation arises exclusively from the conflict among uni…
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- 9780262316149
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Origination of organismal form :beyond the gene in developmental and evolutio…
"A Bradford book."The field of evolutionary biology arose from the desire to understand the origin and diversity of biological forms. In recent years, however, evolutionary genetics, with its focus on the modification and inheritance of presumed genetic programs, has all but overwhelmed other aspects of evolutionary biology. This has led to the neglect of the study of the generative origins of …
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- 9780262280327
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- 1 online resource (vi, 332 pages) :illustrations.
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The origins of grammar :evidence from early language comprehension
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- 0585331480
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- 1 online resource (x, 230 pages) :illustrations.
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Type-Logical Semantics
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269902
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 575 pages).
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Understanding Intelligence
Researchers now agree that intelligence always manifests itself in behavior - thus it is behavior that we must understand. An exciting new field has grown around the study of behavior-based intelligence, also known as embodied cognitive science, "new AI," and "behavior-based AI."" "Rolf Pfeifer and Christian Scheier provide a systematic introduction to this new way of thinking about intelligenc…
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- 9780262256797
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- 1 online resource (xx, 697 pages) :illustrations
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Computational Models of Discourse
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- 9780262255806
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 403 pages) :illustrations.
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Computational Theories of Interaction and Agency
"Reprinted from Artificial intelligence, volume 72, numbers 1-2 (January 1995) and volume 73, numbers 1-2 (February 1995)"--Title page verso.Over time the field of artificial intelligence has developed an "agent perspective" expanding its focus from thought to action, from search spaces to physical environments, and from problem-solving to long-term activity. Originally published as a special d…
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- 1st MIT Press ed.
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- 9780262291040
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- 1 online resource (vi, 767 pages) :illustrations.
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