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  • Coronary Care Units

    Proceedings of a European Seminar held in Pisa, Italy

    Edited by S. Chierchia, A. Maseri, C. Marchesi, M.G. Trivella ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The dimensions of the socio-economic problem represented by ischemic heart disease require a concentration of effort for its treatment and prevention at least comparable to that in program for neoplastic disease. It appeared a logical conclusion of the work of the CMSI ad hoc group to organize a seminar on Perspectives of Coronary Care. Similar actions obviously are better undertaken at a ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Properties, Types and Meaning

    Volume II: Semantic Issues

    Edited by R. Turner, G. Chierchia, Barbara B.H. Partee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection of papers stems originally from a conference on Property Theory, Type Theory and Semantics held in Amherst on March 13-16 1986. The conference brought together logicians, philosophers, com puter scientists and linguists who had been working on these issues (of ten in isolation from one another). Our intent was to boost debate and exchange of ideas on these fundamental issues at a ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Topics in the Syntax and Semantics of Infinitives and Gerunds

    by Gennaro Chierchia ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Syntax
    This title, first published in 1988, is an inquiry into the nature of predication in natural language. The study is based on the hypothesis that infinitives and gerunds are not clausal or propositional constructions and attempts to provide support for such a hypothesis, whilst also drawing from analysis of various anaphoric phenomena. This title will be of interest to students of language and ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

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  • Collocation

    Applications and Implications

    by G. Barnbrook, O. Mason, R. Krishnamurthy ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and applications of the concept as language model and analytical tool. It provides a definitive survey of currently available techniques and a detailed description of their implementation. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Nitty-Gritty Grammar

    A Not-So-Serious Guide to Clear Communication

    by Edith Hope Fine, Judith Pinkerton Josephson ...
    An easy-to-follow guide for all of your grammar needs.With clear text, appealing cartoons, and a focus on common grammatical errors and how to correct them, this little volume is a real gem that should find a permanent place with companies, universities, and anyone seeking a user-friendly guide to style and usage. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Computational Logic and Human Thinking

    How to Be Artificially Intelligent

    by Robert Kowalski ...
    The practical benefits of computational logic need not be limited to mathematics and computing. As this book shows, ordinary people in their everyday lives can profit from the recent advances that have been developed for artificial intelligence. The book draws upon related developments in various fields from philosophy to psychology and law. It pays special attention to the integration of logic ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • Quantifiers and Cognition: Logical and Computational Perspectives

    by Jakub Szymanik ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume on the semantic complexity of natural language explores the question why some sentences are more difficult than others. While doing so, it lays the groundwork for extending semantic theory with computational and cognitive aspects by combining linguistics and logic with computations and cognition.Quantifier expressions occur whenever we describe the world and communicate about it. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Logic of Metaphor

    Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds

    by Eric Steinhart ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Metaphors and Logic Metaphors are among the most vigorous offspring of the creative mind; but their vitality springs from the fact that they are logical organisms in the ecology of l- guage. I aim to use logical techniques to analyze the meanings of metaphors. My goal here is to show how contemporary formal semantics can be extended to handle metaphorical utterances. What distinguishes this work ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Generative Grammar

    Theory and its History

    by Robert Freidin ...
    Series series Routledge Leading Linguists
    Generative Grammar presents a substantial contribution to the field of linguistics in drawing together for the first time the author's most significant work on the theory of generative grammar.The essays collected here display Freidin's role in moving the theory forward in terms of new proposals, and analyse the efforts to understand the evolution and history of the theory by careful investigation ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Modern Perspectives in Type-Theoretical Semantics

    Edited by Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Zhaohui Luo ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is a collective volume that reports the state of the art in the applications of type theory to linguistic semantics. The volume fills a 20 year gap from the last published book on the issue and aspires to bring researchers closer to cutting edge alternatives in formal semantics research. It consists of unpublished work by some key researchers on various issues related to the type ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

  • Comparative Constructions in Spanish and French Syntax

    by Susan Price ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Syntax
    This study, first published in 1990, presents a comprehensive description of the comparative constructions of Spanish and French, and shows that the apparently numerous differences in their syntactic realisations can be accounted for by general constraints on the expression of comparison. There is also a discussion of parallel constructions in other Romance languages, showing that these languages ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Computing Meaning

    Volume 2

    Edited by H. Bunt, Reinhard Muskens, E. Thijsse ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is a collection of papers written by outstanding researchers in the newly emerging field of computational semantics. Computational semantics is concerned with the computation of the meanings of linguistic objects such as text fragments, spoken dialogue utterances, and e-mail messages. The meaning of such an object is determined partly by linguistic information and partly by information ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD