First published in 1987. Most introductory textbooks in phonetics are designed to turn the people who use them into phon......more

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Some fifteen years ago, research on generalized quantifiers was con- sidered to be a branch of mathematical logic, mainl......more

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This volume resolves an inconsistency that has arisen in the autosegmental theory of phonology and morphology - some ver......more

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Thematic Relations provides information pertinent to thematic relations, which focus both on what sematic roles are expr......more

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In this study of the English language as it is spelled in America, D. W. Cummings demonstrates that behind the apparent ......more

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This book introduces a theory, Naive Semantics (NS), a theory of the knowledge underlying natural language understanding......more

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These conference proceedings examine various aspects of formal linguistics. Individual topics covered include: sequences......more

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This collection of papers stems originally from a conference on Property Theory, Type Theory and Semantics held in Amher......more

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In these papers, the topic of syntax is broadly construed as covering discourse phenomena and the interface between morp......more

This book is an introduction to the current developments in model-theoretic semantics, which has become an essential par......more

This book is an introduction to the current developments in model-theoretic semantics, which has become an essential par......more

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In the past few decades, the development of theoretical linguistics has proved to be successful in shedding light on the......more

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....more

From English, French, Spanish and Russian to Pashto, Tagalog, and Swahili, this is the first comprehensive reference wor......more

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For those who are familiar with the first edition, it will be convenient to have some indication of where the main chang......more

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A principal goal of this book is to develop and apply the Situation Semantics framework. Jean Mark Gawron and Stanley Pe......more

Geoffrey Nunberg challenges a widespread assumption that the linguistic structure of written languages is qualitatively ......more

The most current research in speech science is presented in this collection of papers. The unifying theme of the collect......more

Known for his work in Chinese historical phonetics, Edwin Pulleyblank has compiled this lexicon to present the result of......more

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Allegories, rhetoric, imagery, commonplaces, cliches and archetypes are discussed in connection with the literary work o......more

As signifying creatures, we fear the false creation ’signifying nothing’ because, like Macbeth, we think of them as dagg......more

This volume systematically applies the accumulated knowledge of developmental psycholinguistics to the field of language......more

The study of naturally occurring connected discourse, spoken or written is one of the most promising and rapidly develop......more

Japanese and Korean are typologically quite similar, so a linguistic phenomenon in one language often has a counterpart ......more

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What can the philosophy of language learn from the classical Indian philosophical tradition? As recently as twenty or th......more

In this book English heterophonous/paronomasic/puns are investigated from a metaphonological perspective. I look into th......more

Bound and Referential Pronouns.- Logical Form and Barriers in Navajo.- Towards a Modular Theory of Coreference.- Head Go......more

As signifying creatures, we fear the false creation ’signifying nothing’ because, like Macbeth, we think of them as dagg......more

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The purpose clause is a common fonn of adverbial modification in English. The bracketed phrases below are purpose clause......more

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Formalization plays an important role in semantics. Doing semantics and following the literature requires considerable t......more

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Focus particles (words such as even, only, also) play an important role in English, in various syntactic and semantic do......more

I-Puzzles Problems and Paradoxes.- One Conceptions of Vagueness.- 1.1 Frege’s Metaphor and The Sorites Paradox.- 1.2 The......more

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This book explores licensing theory and its implications for a theory of syntax. It brings together a series of new pape......more

THE PLACE OF PHILOSOPHY IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE During the last few years, many books have been published and many meetings......more

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