Semantics and the Lexicon

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 49
• This book integrates the research being carried out in the field of lexical semantics in linguistics with the work on knowledge representation and lex... Lees meer

Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 81
• The papers in this volume address two main topics: Q1: What is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural l- guage? Q2: What are the... Lees meer

Speech Acts, Mind, and Social Reality

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 79
• The contributions in this volume result from discussions on and with John R. Searle, containing Searle's own latest views - including his seminal idea... Lees meer

Modality and Meaning

W G Lycan

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 53
• Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition. `Worlds' themselves are understood as structured sets of ... Lees meer

Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface

I Comorovski

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 59
• Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface starts by analyzing the interpretation of interrogative phrases in single and multiple consti... Lees meer

The German Perfect

R Musan

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 78
• 1. OUTLINE German has the three main perfect constructions which are illustrated in (1. 1). 1 In each of these constructions, the verb appears in the ... Lees meer

Free Electron Lasers

S Martellucci, A N Chester

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 49
• The volume contains the proceedings of the 7th Course on Physics and Technology of Free Electron Lasers of the International School of Quantum Electro... Lees meer

Fact Proposition Event

P L Peterson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 66
• `Peterson is an authority of a philosophical and linguistic industry that began in the 1960s with Vendler's work on nominalization. Natural languages ... Lees meer

Natural Language Parsing and Linguistic Theories

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 35
• presupposition fails, we now give a short introduction into Unification Grammar. Since all implementations discussed in this volume use PROLOG (with t... Lees meer

Purpose Clauses

C Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 47
• The purpose clause is a common fonn of adverbial modification in English. The bracketed phrases below are purpose clauses, and they look and sound unr... Lees meer

Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 81
• The papers in this volume address two main topics: Q1: What is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural l- guage? Q2: What are the... Lees meer

Speech Acts, Mind, and Social Reality

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 79
• The contributions in this volume result from discussions on and with John R. Searle, containing Searle's own latest views - including his seminal idea... Lees meer

Categorial Grammars and Natural Language Structures

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 32
• For the most part, the papers collected in this volume stern from presentations given at a conference held in Tucson over the weekend of May 31 throug... Lees meer

Frames and Concept Types

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 94
• This volume showcases the potential richness of frame representations. The presentation includes introductory articles on the application of frames to... Lees meer

Topics in Constraint-Based Grammar of Japanese

Koichi Hashida

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 68
• 1. Introduction; T. Gunji, K. Hasida. I: Recent Developments in JPSG. 2. Relative Clauses and Adnominal Clauses; H. Sirai, T. Gunji. 3. Measurement an... Lees meer

Ways of Scope Taking

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 65
• The present volume is as much a book co-authored by all the contributors as it is an edited collection of their papers. Most of the contributors have ... Lees meer

Locality in Wh Quantification

Veneeta Dayal

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 62
• Locality in WH Quantification argues that Logical Form, the level that mediates between syntax and semantics, is derived from S-structure by local mov... Lees meer

Topic and Focus

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 82
• During the 2001 Linguistic Summer Institute at University of California, Santa Barbara, a group of linguists gathered at a workshop to discuss the exp... Lees meer

Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language: Volume II

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 97
• This work presents the structure, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions in languages from diverse language families... Lees meer

The Parameter of Aspect

C S Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 43
• This work presents a unified theory of aspect within Universal Grammar. It provides an unusual combination of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic appro... Lees meer

Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse

Nicholas Asher

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 50
• Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse presents a novel framework and analysis of the ways we refer to abstract objects in natural language discou... Lees meer

Existence: Semantics and Syntax

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 84
• This collection of essays grew out of the workshop 'Existence: Semantics and Syntax', which was held at the University of Nancy 2 in September 2002. T... Lees meer

Computing Meaning

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 77
• This book is a collection of papers written by outstanding researchers in the newly emerging field of computational semantics. Computational semantics... Lees meer

Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | nr. 6
• I. MASS TERMS, COUNT TERMS, AND SORTAL TERMS Central examples of mass terms are easy to come by. 'Water', 'smoke', 'gold', etc., differ in their synta... Lees meer