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  • The Syntax of Portuguese

    by Mary A. Kato, Ana Maria Martins, Jairo Nunes ...
    Series series Cambridge Syntax Guides
    Portuguese is the second most spoken Romance language in the world, and due to recent interest in comparative syntax, the literature on its syntax has increased exponentially, resulting in exciting discoveries of a range of aspects that have hitherto been overlooked. This book provides a theoretically grounded overview of the major syntactic properties of Portuguese, focusing on the differences ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Understanding Minimalism

    by Norbert Hornstein, Jairo Nunes, Kleanthes K. Grohmann ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Understanding Minimalism, first published in 2005, is an introduction to the Minimalist Program - the model of syntactic theory within generative linguistics. Accessibly written, it presents the basic principles and techniques of the minimalist program, looking firstly at analyses within Government and Binding Theory (the Minimalist Program's predecessor), and gradually introducing minimalist ... Read more

    $66.49 USD

  • Control as Movement

    by Cedric Boeckx, Norbert Hornstein, Jairo Nunes ...
    Series Book 126 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    The Movement Theory of Control (MTC) makes one major claim: that control relations in sentences like 'John wants to leave' are grammatically mediated by movement. This goes against the traditional view that such sentences involve not movement, but binding, and analogizes control to raising, albeit with one important distinction: whereas the target of movement in control structures is a theta ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

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  • Null Subjects

    by José A. Camacho ...
    Series Book 137 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    The null subject has always been central to linguistic theory, because it tells us a great deal about the underlying structure of language in the human brain, and about the interface between syntax and semantics. Null subjects exist in languages such as Italian, Chinese, Russian and Greek where the subject of a sentence can be tacitly implied, and is understood from the context. In this systematic ... Read more

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  • Portuguese Grammar, Verbs, And Punctuation Study Guide (Mobi Study Guides)

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    Boost Your grades with comprehensive Portuguese Language study guide.FEATURES:- Clear and concise explanations. - Search for words or phrases. - Add Bookmarks - Designed for optimal navigation on electronic devices with a small screen - Access the guide anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway. - Use your down time to prepare for an exam. - Always have the guide available for a ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic

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    by Graham Priest ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    This revised and considerably expanded 2nd edition, published in 2008, brings together a wide range of topics, including modal, tense, conditional, intuitionist, many-valued, paraconsistent, relevant, and fuzzy logics. Part 1, on propositional logic, is the old Introduction, but contains much new material. Part 2 is entirely new, and covers quantification and identity for all the logics in Part 1. ... Read more

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  • Spanish Verbalisations and the Internal Structure of Lexical Predicates

    by Antonio Fábregas ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
    Spanish Verbalisations and the Internal Structure of Lexical Predicates provides the first comprehensive and empirically detailed theoretical analysis of the different ways in which Spanish builds verbs from nouns and adjectives.This book poses questions about the nature of theme vowels, parasynthesis and the structural relation between the three major lexical word classes from within a Neo ... Read more

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  • On Syntax of Negation

    by Itziar Laka ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Syntax
    The central concern of this title, first published in 1994, is the syntactic nature of negation in Universal Grammar, and its relation to other functional elements in the Syntax. The study argues that negation is not a syntactic category on its own; rather, it is one of the values of a more abstract syntactic category, named Σ, which includes other sentence operators, such as affirmation and ... Read more

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  • A New Introduction to Modal Logic

    by M.J. Cresswell, G.E. Hughes ...
    This long-awaited book replaces Hughes and Cresswell's two classic studies of modal logic: An Introduction to Modal Logic and A Companion to Modal Logic.A New Introduction to Modal Logic is an entirely new work, completely re-written by the authors. They have incorporated all the new developments that have taken place since 1968 in both modal propositional logic and modal predicate logic, without ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of the Spanish Language

    by David A. Pharies ...
    "As in the first edition, Pharies debunks—in an engaging manner—a number of 'linguistic myths' about Spanish orthography, pronunciation, and grammar." — ChoiceSince its publication in 2007, A Brief History of the Spanish Language has become the leading introduction to the history of one of the world's most widely spoken languages. Moving from the language's Latin roots to its present-day forms, ... Read more

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  • Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing

    by Christopher Manning, Hinrich Schutze ...
    Statistical approaches to processing natural language text have become dominant in recent years. This foundational text is the first comprehensive introduction to statistical natural language processing (NLP) to appear. The book contains all the theory and algorithms needed for building NLP tools. It provides broad but rigorous coverage of mathematical and linguistic foundations, as well as ... Read more

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