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Hardback. Address two main topics: What is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural language? What are the linguistic/philosophical implications of what one takes the nature/scope of ellipsis to be? This book is of interest to professionals and advanced graduate students in the fields of philosophy of language, semantics, and syntax. Editor(s): Elugardo, Reinaldo; Stainton, Robert J. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 565.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402022999
- ISBN
- 9781402022999
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Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Paperback. Parsing can be defined as the decomposition of complex structures into their constituent parts, and parsing technology as the methods, the tools, and the software to parse automatically. This book contains contributions from researchers in the area of natural language parsing technology. It is suitable for graduate students and researchers. Editor(s): Bunt, Harry; Carroll, John; Satta, Giorgio. Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 405 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; UYQL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 586.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 405
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402022944
- ISBN
- 9781402022944
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€ 190.52
€ 190.52
Hardback. Focuses on philosophy of logic and language, and of meaning and communication. The discussion of these issues involves analytical approaches, including semantics and semiotics, philosophy of science, mathematical logic, phenomenology, hermeneutics and some aspects of philosophical anthropology and aesthetics. Editor(s): Floistad, Guttorm. Series: Philosophical Problems Today. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 546.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402021947
- ISBN
- 9781402021947
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Condition: New
€ 122.91
€ 122.91
Paperback. An in-depth study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation. It shows how the syntactic predication relation is semantically interpreted, and how the predication relation explains constraints on DP-raising and on the distribution of pleonastics in English. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 367 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1150.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 367
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402020582
- ISBN
- 9781402020582
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Condition: New
€ 189.67
€ 189.67
Hardback. Explores the question of whether the notion of periphery has any real theoretical bite. This title addresses: the question of the fine-grainedness of syntactic representations, the relevance of syntactic edges to locality and semantic interpretation, and the nature of the dependencies connecting peripheral elements to the syntactic core. Editor(s): Adger, David; De Cat, Cecile (University of York); Tsoulas, George. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 448 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 852.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402019081
- ISBN
- 9781402019081
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Condition: New
€ 188.38
€ 188.38
hardcover. Intended for philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, and philosophers. This book provides an overview of key debates in the history of modern western medicine on the nature, knowledge, and value of disease; illustrates how these debates relate; provides a "contextual" or "localized" way of understanding disease; and more. Series: Philosophy and Medicine. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Boston Incorporated United States
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2003rd Edition
- SKU
- V9781402017964
- ISBN
- 9781402017964
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Condition: New
€ 125.69
€ 125.69
Paperback. The structure and properties of a natural language expression depends on its component sub-expressions - "resources" - and relations among them that are sensitive to basic structural properties of order, grouping, and multiplicity. This work contains papers which examine linguistic resources and resource-sensitivity from a variety of perspectives. Editor(s): Oehrle, Richard T. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402016929
- ISBN
- 9781402016929
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€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardback. Examines linguistic resources and resource-sensitivity from a variety of perspectives. This book contains a number of papers treating anaphorically-dependent expressions as functions, whose application to an appropriate argument yields a type and an interpretation directly integratable with the surrounding grammatical structure. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 631.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402016912
- ISBN
- 9781402016912
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Condition: New
€ 70.20
€ 70.20
Hardcover. Drawing on the pragmatist tradition of semiotic of Peirce and Morris, this book traces the development of the logical categories of language to the more primitive sign levels of natural events and signals. The concluding chapters discuss the unique features introduced by spoken natural languages. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528. Language and Its Evolutionary Antecedents. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. 271 pages, black & white illustrations. Drawing on the pragmatist tradition of semiotic of Peirce and Morris, this book traces the development of the logical categories of language to the more primitive sign levels of natural events and signals. The concluding chapters discuss the unique features introduced by spoken natural languages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 22. Weight: 528.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2003rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402016509
- ISBN
- 9781402016509
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.04
€ 127.04
Hardback. Containing analyses at word, text, and cultural levels, this collection of papers offer a multi-disciplinary approach to understand alphabetic literacy. It includes research and advances, investigations in classroom, analyses of literacy acquisition by readers with special needs, linguistic comparisons, and a historical and cultural perspective. Editor(s): Nunes, Terezinha; Bryant, Peter. Num Pages: 790 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFC; JNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 790
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402016202
- ISBN
- 9781402016202
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Condition: New
€ 536.94
€ 536.94
Hardback. Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue Editor(s): Kuppevelt, Jan van; Smith, R. W. Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 381 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 735.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 381
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402016141
- ISBN
- 9781402016141
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.61
€ 192.61
Hardback. Explores the multilingual lexicon by providing insights from research studies conducted in psycholinguistics, applied linguistics and neurolinguistics. This work includes different perspectives that provide a link to the mainstream work on the lexicon and vocabulary acquisition. Editor(s): Cenoz, Jasone; Hufeisen, Britta; Jessner, Ulrike. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; JNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 498.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402015434
- ISBN
- 9781402015434
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.65
€ 126.65
Hardback. Focusing primarily on Swedish, a Germanic language whose particles have not been studied extensively, this study develops a theory of non-projecting words in which particles are morphologically independent words that do not project phrases. It identifies the violations of the basic tenets of X-bar theory. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACSW; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402015311
- ISBN
- 9781402015311
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.14
€ 123.14
Paperback. Analyzes the structure of coordination based on the symmetrical properties the construction imposes on its conjuncts, and how conjuncts interact with other categories outside coordination with respect to agreement and other grammatical phenomena. Focusing on data from Spanish, this work offers a theory of coordination within syntactic frameworks. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402015113
- ISBN
- 9781402015113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 123.22
€ 123.22
Hardback. Analyzes the structure of coordination from two perspectives: the symmetrical properties the construction imposes on its conjuncts, and how conjuncts interact with other categories outside coordination with respect to agreement and other grammatical phenomena. This book offers a theory of coordination within the syntactic frameworks. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 466.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402015106
- ISBN
- 9781402015106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.63
€ 122.63
Hardback. In order to determine whether two participants in a discussion are in real dis/agreement, one must compare their propositions. Comparison presupposes yardsticks in common. This work thematises such yardsticks, demonstrating the existence, content and factual significance of a well-delimited set of proposition types and proposition patterns. Series: Law and Philosophy Library. Num Pages: 631 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; LAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1061.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 631
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402014901
- ISBN
- 9781402014901
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.57
€ 126.57
hardcover. Offering an introduction to the use of neuroscience to teach second languages, this work discusses the relation between how the brain learns and how to use this to construct classroom activities. It evaluates methods, syllabi, and approaches, from the perspective of brain, and illustrates how teaching unfolds with examples in several languages. Series: Topics in Language and Linguistics. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 12. Weight in Grams: 444.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Springer United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2003rd Edition
- SKU
- V9781402014888
- ISBN
- 9781402014888
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.87
€ 125.87
Paperback. Discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in detail. This book treats the history of many languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish. It shows that the application of OT allows for innovative and improved analyses. It contains a bibliography on Optimality Theory and language change. Editor(s): Holt, D. Eric (University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA). Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 463 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 745.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 463
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402014703
- ISBN
- 9781402014703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 245.50
€ 245.50
Hardback. Discusses many optimization and linguistic issues. This title treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish and shows that the application of Optimality Theory allows for innovative and improved analyses. Editor(s): Holt, D. Eric (University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA). Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 463 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 899.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 463
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402014697
- ISBN
- 9781402014697
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 241.45
€ 241.45
Paperback. Contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Argumentation (Amsterdam, 2002) by prominent international scholars of argumentation theory. This title is of interest to those working in the field of argumentation theory and to the scholars who are interested in the developments in this field. Editor(s): Eemeren, Frans H. van; Blair, J. Anthony (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada); Willard, Charles Arthur; Snoeck Henkemans, A. Francisca. Series: Argumentation Library. Num Pages: 354 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402014567
- ISBN
- 9781402014567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.40
€ 68.40
Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation
. Ed(S): Carl, Michael; Way, Andy (School Of ...
Paperback. Intended for researchers and program developers in the field of Machine Translation and especially Example-Based Machine Translation, bilingual text processing and cross-linguistic information retrieval. This book can be used in graduate-level courses in machine translation and statistical NLP. Editor(s): Carl, Michael; Way, Andy (School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University, Ireland). Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 482 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFP; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 718.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 482
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402014017
- ISBN
- 9781402014017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 191.72
€ 191.72
Paperback. As the field of typological studies grows, it is evident that the languages of the Americas have to be included in order to obtain a complete picture of natural human language. This work serves as a phonetic fieldwork study of the sound system of an important Native American language - the Navajo language as it is spoken on the Navajo reservation. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2JND; 2JNN; CFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402013522
- ISBN
- 9781402013522
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 123.28
€ 123.28
Paperback. Linguists and engineers in Natural Language Processing tend to use electronic corpora more. This book gathers 21 papers on building and using parsed corpora raising relevant questions. It deals with a variety of languages and a variety of corpora. It is for those working in linguistics, computational linguistics, natural language, and grammar. Editor(s): Abeille, Anne. Series: Text , Speech & Language Technology S. Num Pages: 407 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 407
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402013355
- ISBN
- 9781402013355
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 191.46
€ 191.46
Hardback. Discusses research in semantics, theory of truth, philosophy of language and theory of communication from a trans-disciplinary perspective. This title addresses issues such as sentence meaning, utterance meaning, speaker's intention and reference, linguistic context, circumstances and background theories. Editor(s): Preyer, Gerhard; Peter, Georg; Ulkan, Maria. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 597.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402013294
- ISBN
- 9781402013294
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.46
€ 127.46