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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in the field examine the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved. Following an opening...
by Yan Huang
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics - the study of language in use - has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language. Chapters have also been updated to include...
Language and Creativity
The Art of Common Talk
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language and Creativity has become established as a pivotal text for courses in English Language, Linguistics and Literacy.
Creativity in language has conventionally been regarded as the preserve of institutionalised discourses such as literature and advertising, and individual gifted minds....
Existential Sentences (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Their Structure and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
What is the relationship between the structure of existential sentences and their meaning? How do hearers interpret existential sentences using pragmatic assumptions? This study attempts to account for the relationship between the structure of existential sentences (ES) and their meaning. The study...
Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume III
The Arabic Linguistic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Vol 3 is devoted to a linguistic tradition that lies outside the Western mainstream, namely that of the Middle East.
The reader is introduced to the major issues and themes that have determined the development of the Arabic linguistic tradition. Each chapter contains...
Discourse and Diversionary Justice
An Analysis of Youth Justice Conferencing
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This book analyses the Youth Justice Conferencing Program in New South Wales, Australia. Exploring this form of diversionary justice from the perspectives of functional linguistics and performance studies, the authors combine close textual analysis with ethnographic research methodologies. They examine...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Studies in Computational Linguistics presents authoritative texts from an international team of leading computational linguists. The books range from the senior undergraduate textbook to the research level monograph and provide a showcase for a broad range of recent developments in the field. The...
Quantitative Research in Linguistics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Presents a comprehensive introduction to analysing quantitative linguistic data.
Starting with an definition of quantitative data, and how it differs from qualitative data, Seb Rasinger examines what the student linguist is trying to find out through analysing data, and how quantitative techniques...
Translation, Brains and the Computer
A Neurolinguistic Solution to Ambiguity and Complexity in Machine Translation
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
This book is about machine translation (MT) and the classic problems associated with this language technology. It examines the causes of these problems and, for linguistic, rule-based systems, attributes the cause to language’s ambiguity and complexity and their interplay in logic-driven processes....
The Acquisition of Syntax
Studies in Comparative Developmental Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This volume contains a collection of studies that survey recent research in developmental linguistics, illustrating the fruitful interaction between comparative syntax and language acquisition. The contributors each analyse a well defined range of acquisition data, aiming to derive them from primitive...
by Richard K. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
An introduction to the study of syntax that also introduces students to the principles of scientific theorizing.
This introductory text takes a novel approach to the study of syntax. Grammar as Science offers an introduction to syntax as an exercise in scientific theory construction. Syntax...
Language Processing with Perl and Prolog
Theories, Implementation, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
The areas of natural language processing and computational linguistics have continued to grow in recent years, driven by the demand to automatically process text and spoken data. With the processing power and techniques now available, research is scaling up from lab prototypes to real-world, proven...
Beginner's GB. The Beginner's Handbook on Government and Binding Theory of Syntax in a concise elementary approach
Theoretical Syntax
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Document from the year 2015 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, , language: English, abstract: Government and Binding Theory is as simple as the approached used in teaching it. Due to the conventions of its framework, some of the good texts on the theory are often too difficult for average...
Formalizing Natural Languages
The NooJ Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This book is at the very heart of linguistics. It provides the theoretical and methodological framework needed to create a successful linguistic project.
Potential applications of descriptive linguistics include spell-checkers, intelligent search engines, information extractors and annotators,...