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  • Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content

    by Eva Hajicová, P. Sgall, Barbara B.H. Partee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    1 OBJECTIVES The main objective of this joint work is to bring together some ideas that have played central roles in two disparate theoretical traditions in order to con tribute to a better understanding of the relationship between focus and the syn tactic and semantic structure of sentences. Within the Prague School tradition and the branch of its contemporary development represented by Hajicova ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Foundations of Language

    Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

    by Ray Jackendoff ...
    How does human language work? How do we put ideas into words that others can understand? Can linguistics shed light on the way the brain operates? Foundations of Language puts linguistics back at the centre of the search to understand human consciousness. Ray Jackendoff begins by surveying the developments in linguistics over the years since Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. He goes ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • 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

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  • Different Kinds of Specificity Across Languages

    Edited by Cornelia Ebert, Stefan Hinterwimmer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This anthology of papers analyzes a range of specificity markers found in natural languages. It reflects the fact that despite intensive research into these markers, the vast differences between the markers across languages and even within single languages have been less acknowledged. Commonly regarded specific indefinites are by no means a homogenous class, and so this volume fills a gap in our ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Theory of Descriptions

    Russell and the Philosophy of Language

    by G. Stevens ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The book combines a historical and philosophical study of Russell's theory of descriptions. It defends, develops and extends the theory as a contribution to natural language semantics while also arguing for a reassessment of the important of linguistic inquiry to Russell's philosophical project. ... Read more

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  • Quantitative Semiotic Analysis

    Edited by Dario Compagno ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This contributed volume gives access to semiotic researches adopting a quantitative stance. European semiotics is traditionally based on immanent methodologies: meaning is seen as an autonomous dimension of human existence, whose laws can be investigated via purely qualitative analytical and reflexive analysis. Today, researches crossing disciplinary boundaries reveal the limitations of such an ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Pragmatism in Philosophical Inquiry

    Theoretical Considerations and Case Studies

    by Nicholas Rescher ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philosophy. It does this not only by describing its mode of operation and explaining its legitimating rationale, but also by substantiating its claims by a series of instructive case studies.The unifying insight of this approach is that the natural criterion of merit within any ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England

    John Wilkins and the Universal Character

    by James Dougal Fleming ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a "real" or "universal" character: a scientific and objective code. Focusing on the Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668) of the polymath John Wilkins, Fleming provides a detailed explanation of how a real character actually was supposed to work. He argues that the period movement should not be understood as a ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Grammar, Philosophy, and Logic

    by Bruce Silver ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book argues that a basic grasp of philosophy and logic can produce written and spoken material that is both grammatically correct and powerful. The author analyses errors in grammar, word choice, phrasing and sentences that even the finest writers can fail to notice; concentrating on subtle missteps and errors that can make the difference between good and excellent prose. Each chapter ... Read more

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  • Victor Dudman's Grammar and Semantics

    by J. Curthoys, V. Dudman ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Victor Dudman's revolutionary English Grammar brings grammar and logic together by conceiving grammar as 'the necessary preliminary to logic'. The focus, for logicians, is the discussion of 'conditionals'; for grammarians it is the concise and accurate explanation of the infamous English modals. ... Read more

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  • Introduction to Montague Semantics

    by D. R. Dowty, S. Peters, R. Wall ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this book we hope to acquaint the reader with the fundamentals of truth conditional model-theoretic semantics, and in particular with a version of this developed by Richard Montague in a series of papers published during the 1960's and early 1970's. In many ways the paper 'The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English' (commonly abbreviated PTQ) represents the culmination of ... Read more

    $242.09 USD

  • Pronouns in Embedded Contexts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

    Edited by Patrick Georg Grosz, Sarah Zobel, Pritty Patel-Grosz ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume presents studies on pronouns in embedded contexts, and offers fundamental insights into this central area of research. Much of the recent research on pronouns has shown that embedded environments, such as clausal complements of attitude predicates, provide a window into the nature of pronouns. Pronouns in such environments not only exhibit familiar distinctions such as that between ... Read more

    $98.09 USD