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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 …
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- 9780262259071
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 182 pages) :illustrations.
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The generative lexicon
The Generative Lexicon presents a novel and exciting theory of lexical semantics that addresses the problem of the "multiplicity of word meaning"; that is, how we are able to give an infinite number of senses to words with finite means. The first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, it lays the foundation for an implemented computational treatment of word meaning…
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- 9780262281966
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- 1 online resource (xii, 298 pages).
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The Nature of the Word: Studies in Honor of Paul Kiparsky
Paul Kiparksy's work in linguistics has been wide-ranging and fundamental. His contributions have influenced virtually every field of contemporary linguistics, from generative phonology to poetic theory. This is a collection of essays by his colleagues and students.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274890
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 750 pages) :illustrations.
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The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
This text is an exploration of what research at the intersection of contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences can reveal about the constraints on the apparently chaotic variation in human languages.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262280204
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 257 pages) :illustrations.
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Bilingual competence and bilingual proficiency in child development
In this volume, Norbert Francis examines the development of bilingual proficiency and the different kinds of competence that come together in making up its component parts.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298384
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 394 pages)
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The discovery of spoken language
"A Bradford book."The Discovery of Spoken Language marks one of the first efforts to integrate the field of infant speech perception research into the general study of language acquisition. It fills in a key part of the acquisition story by providing an extensive review of research on the acquisition of language during the first year of life, focusing primarily on how normally developing infant…
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- 9780262315869
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- 1 online resource (xii, 314 pages).
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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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Electric Words: Dictionaries, Computers, and Meanings
"A Bradford book."The use of computers to understand words continues to be an area of burgeoning research. Electric Words is the first general survey of and introduction to the entire range of work in lexical linguistics and corpora -- the study of such on-line resources as dictionaries and other texts -- in the broader fields of natural-language processing and artificial intelligence. The auth…
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- 9780262286244
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- 1 online resource (viii, 289 pages) :illustrations.
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The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585020515
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- 1 online resource (xii, 128 pages) :illustrations.
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Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics: The Interpretation of Coordinati…
An investigation of the logical flexibility principles needed for a formal semantic account of coordination, plurality, and scope in natural language.Since the early work of Montague, Boolean semantics and its subfield of generalized quantifier theory have become the model-theoretic foundation for the study of meaning in natural languages. This book uses this framework to develop a new semantic…
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