Outgrowth of a meeting of the "Altenberg 16" at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Altenberg, Austria, in July 2008. Cf. pref.In this volume, 16 leading evolutionary biologists and philosophers of science survey the conceptual changes that have emerged since Huxley's landmark publication, not only in such traditional domains of evolutionary biology as quantitati…
Here, Richards investigates the conditions imposed upon syntax by the need to create syntactic objects that can be interpreted by phonology - that is, objects that can be pronounced.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
In this work, the authors deliver an analysis of how the US currently mitigates, insures against, and finances recovery from natural disasters.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
ALTHOUGH there is no historic record of the fact, yet there is every reason to believe that long before the Roman invasion the site of Chester was occupied as a stronghold by the original inhabitants. The site of Chester in early times was one well suited for the growth of a great and strong city. Its strength as well as its fitness for commerce, mainly lay in the river itself, which washed the…
Providing a reanalysis of minimalist syntax, Thomas Stroik considers the optimal design properties for human language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
This text offers a simple model of reasoning about reason as a framework for its discussions. Following this framework, the contributors consider meta-level control of computational activities, introspective monitoring, distributed meta-reasoning, and, putting all these aspects of meta- reasoning together.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.