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Hardback. This work investigates the phenomenon of verb-second in Kashmiri, a language outside the Germanic family, unique in that it exhibits both the German/Dutch type of verb-second as well as the Yiddish/Icelandic type. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2BMK; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 615.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792360339
- ISBN
- 9780792360339
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Condition: New
€ 190.86
€ 190.86
Hardback. One of the most basic themes in the philosophy of language is referential uptake, the question of what counts as properly 'understanding' a referring act in communication. This work argues that traditional proposals fail to account for success in referential communication. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1050.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792359746
- ISBN
- 9780792359746
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Condition: New
€ 125.66
€ 125.66
Hardback. The main focus of this book is the development of referential abilities in young children. A new theoretical model of the syntax--discourse interface is presented, and it is shown how the proposed model can explain various psycholinguistic findings. Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792359364
- ISBN
- 9780792359364
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Condition: New
€ 126.06
€ 126.06
Hardback. An in-depth discussion of the field of syntactic wordclass tagging - the annotation of the words in a text with tags indicating their syntactic properties. Represented are the viewpoints of the two main groups interested in tagging: the users of tagged text and the developers of tagging software. Editor(s): Halteren, Hans van. Series: Text , Speech & Language Technology S. Num Pages: 334 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792358961
- ISBN
- 9780792358961
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Condition: New
€ 191.66
€ 191.66
Hardback. The nature of truth is one of the central philosophical problems of all time. This work draws together contributions from analytic philosophers who approach the problem within the context established by the results of Alfred Tarski. It is devoted to a reconsideration of some of the classical ideas about truth. Editor(s): Peregrin, Jaroslav. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792358657
- ISBN
- 9780792358657
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Condition: New
€ 126.11
€ 126.11
Hardback. Focuses on the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Information Retrieval. This book discusses research systems and evaluations that represent the avenues where the impact of NLP technologies in information retrieval is being explored, and is a useful reference to those in the field of Natural Language Processing, and Information Retrieval. Editor(s): Strzalkowski, Tomek. Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 384 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 23. Weight in Grams: 752.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792356851
- ISBN
- 9780792356851
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Condition: New
€ 129.52
€ 129.52
Hardback. This volume is a study of the foundations of model-theoretic semantics. Its central thesis is that one does not need to assume a perfect structural fit between languages and their models in order to characterize the basic semantic notions. Series: Topoi Library. Num Pages: 146 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 169 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 146
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792356295
- ISBN
- 9780792356295
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Condition: New
€ 124.81
€ 124.81
Paperback. Explores important, but overlooked questions in on-line sentence interpretation and attempts to erect some of the scaffolding for an eventual theory of sentence interpretation. Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792356028
- ISBN
- 9780792356028
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Condition: New
€ 64.87
€ 64.87
The New Theory of Reference. Kripke, Marcus, and Its Origins.
. Ed(S): Humphreys, Paul W.; Fetzer, James H.
Paperback. Deals with the debate over the origins of the New Theory of Reference. This book discusses who was responsible for the ideas that Saul Kripke presented in his "Naming and Necessity". It also discusses the contributions of philosophers such as Follesdal, Geach, Hintikka, Plantinga, and Stig Kanger to the development of modal semantics. Editor(s): Humphreys, Paul W.; Fetzer, James H. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792355786
- ISBN
- 9780792355786
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Condition: New
€ 190.71
€ 190.71
Hardback. Integrates research in the field of literacy problems and interventions into a single academic reference. This book examines the course of literacy development. It focuses on the causes of literacy problems. It discusses the benefits of training of metalinguistic awareness. It also focuses on interventions at the word level and beyond. Editor(s): Reitsma, P.; Verhoeven, L. Series: Neuropsychology and Cognition. Num Pages: 387 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CBG; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 724.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 387
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792355571
- ISBN
- 9780792355571
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.38
€ 192.38
Paperback. Editor(s): Johnson, Kyle; Roberts, Ian. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 433.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792355014
- ISBN
- 9780792355014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.80
€ 121.80
Hardback. Via a number of articles, this book presents a survey and a set of projects in computational lexical semantics. Topics include verb semantic classifications, relations between syntax and semantics, Wordnet for verbs, multilinguism, lexical knowledge bases and lexical acquisition. Editor(s): Saint-Dizier, Patrick. Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 379 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 724.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 379
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792354994
- ISBN
- 9780792354994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.38
€ 192.38
Hardback. These papers canvas a variety of topics central to the current development of syntactic theory. These include new analyses of critic inversion constructions in French and critic doubling constructions drawn from Arabic. Editor(s): Johnson, Kyle; Roberts, Ian. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792354987
- ISBN
- 9780792354987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.76
€ 126.76
Hardback. This work deals with a number of constructions in Mandarin Chinese which involve the main verb and the material following it, like the object NPs, resultative phrases, durative expressions and other elements. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2GDCM; CFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1180.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792354628
- ISBN
- 9780792354628
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.49
€ 126.49
Hardback. Connecting some central topics in the philosophies of language, science and ontology, treating them within the framework of a single theory, this book argues that meaning in language is an outcome of the evolutionary development of forms of animal communication, and explains this process by naturalising the Locke-Grice approach. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792353317
- ISBN
- 9780792353317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.76
€ 126.76
Hardback. Describes the main objective of EuroWordNet, which is the building of a multilingual database with lexical semantic networks or wordnets for several European languages. This book offers an introduction to the EuroWordNet project for scholars and raises many issues that set the directions for other research in semantics and knowledge engineering. Editor(s): Vossen, Piek. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFX; UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Reprinted from COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES, 32:2
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792352952
- ISBN
- 9780792352952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.18
€ 125.18
Hardback. Containing 13 studies on various aspects of Greek syntax, this text demonstrates how much the field of Greek syntax has grown both in range and depth. Topics covered include the phrase structure of clauses and nominal phrases, and clitics in standard Greek and in dialects. Editor(s): Alexiadou, Artemis; Horrocks, G. C. (University of Cambridge, UK); Stavrou, Melita. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 2AHM; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792352907
- ISBN
- 9780792352907
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 180.01
€ 180.01
Topic Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures and Semantic Content
Hajicova, Eva; Partee, Barbara B. H.; Sgall, ...
hardcover. This text explores the relationship between theories of topic-focus structure, principally as developed in the Prague School, and the tripartite structure approach to quantification and other focus-sensitive constructions which has emerged from work in formal semantics. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 1998th Edition
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792352891
- ISBN
- 9780792352891
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.06
€ 126.06
Hardback. Contains papers which cover intensional contexts, possible worlds, quasi-indicators, guise theory, property theory, Russell's substitutional theory of propositions, event theory, the adverbial theory of mental attitudes, existentialist ontology, and Plato's, Leibniz's, Kant's and Peirce's ontologies. Editor(s): Orilia, Francesco; Rapaport, William J. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 415 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 763.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 415
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792351979
- ISBN
- 9780792351979
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.86
€ 192.86
Hardback. The political and economic transformation of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries has also affected their research systems. This volume analyses the case study material in a comparative perspective, highlighting both general trends and significant differences between countries and disciplines. Editor(s): Mayntz, Renate; Schimank, U. (Fernuniversitat Hagen, Germany); Weingart, Peter. Series: Sociology of the Sciences Library. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DV; CJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 980.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792351689
- ISBN
- 9780792351689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.23
€ 125.23