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Agreement and Its Failures
This monograph shows that the typically obligatory nature of predicate-argument agreement in phi-features (phi-agreement) cannot be captured through 'derivational time-bombs' - elements of the initial representation that cannot be part of a well-formed, end-of-the-derivation structure, and which are eliminated by the application of phi-agreement itself. This includes, but is not limited to, the…
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- 9780262323192
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 291 pages) :illustrations.
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Analyzing Neural Time Series Data: Theory and Practice
"This book offers a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of analyzing electrical brain signals. It explains the conceptual, mathematical, and implementational (via Matlab programming) aspects of time-, time-frequency- and synchronization-based analyses of magnetoencephalography (MEG), electroencephalography (EEG), and local field potential (LFP) recordings from humans and nonhuman ani…
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- 9780262319553
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 578 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations.
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Humanity Enhanced: Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies
Emerging biotechnologies that manipulate human genetic material have drawn a chorus of objections from politicians, pundits, and scholars. In Humanity Enhanced, Russell Blackford examines them in the context of liberal thought, discussing the public policy issues they raise from legal and political perspectives. Some see the possibility of genetic choice as challenging the values of liberal dem…
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- 0262318539
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- 1 online resource (231 pages).
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Transportation and revolt :pigeons, mules, canals, and the vanishing geograph…
"Modes of transportation understood, by political regimes in different times and places, as intrinsically useful for clandestine movement, subversive mobility, and smuggling for revolt. Contents: Chapters look at canal transportation, several types of animal transportation (mules, elephants, camels and sled-dogs are all treated at some length), and inner-city freight-carrying infrastructure"--P…
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- 9780262330404
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- 1 online resource :illustrations.
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Collaborative Media: Production, Consumption, and Design Interventions
"With many new forms of digital media--including such popular social media as Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr -- the people formerly known as the audience no longer only consume but also produce and even design media. Jonas L?owgren and Bo Reimer term this phenomenon collaborative media, and in this book they investigate the qualities and characteristics of these forms of media in terms of what t…
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- 9781461952190
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- 1 online resource (198 pages) :illustrations
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Subjunctive Conditionals: A Linguistic Analysis
Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions by capitalizing on the occurrence of past tense morphology in both antecedent and consequent clauses.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9781461943273
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- 1 online resource (xii, 159 pages).
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Embodied Conversational Agents
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- 9780262270038
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- 1 online resource (430 pages) :illustrations
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Emotional Intelligence: Science and Myth
"A Bradford book."A comprehensive, scientific examination of the popular psychological construct of emotional intelligence.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262279260
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 697 pages) :illustrations.
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Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World…
Dr. Smil is the world's authority on nitrogenous fertilizer.The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fundamental importance to the modern world than the invention of the airplane, nuclear energy, space flight, or television. The expansion of the world's population from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to today's six billion would not have been possible withou…
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- 9780262283854
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 338 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Essays on the Representational and Derivational Nature of Grammar: The Divers…
This book can be read on two levels: as a novel empirical study of wh- interrogatives and relative constructions in a variety of languages and as a theoretical investigation of chain formation in grammar.The book is divided into two parts. Part I investigates the distribution and interpretation of multiple wh- interrogative constructions, focusing on the workings of Superiority. Part II investi…
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- 9780262267229
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- 1 online resource (vii, 289 pages).
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