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Book cover for F. R. Palmer: Grammar and Meaning

Grammar and Meaning : Essays in Honour of Sir John Lyons

F. R. Palmer
Paperback - $68.95



Book cover for Martha Stone Palmer: Semantic Processing for Finite Domains

Semantic Processing for Finite Domains

Martha Stone Palmer
Paperback - $82.95

A primary problem in the area of natural language processing has been semantic analysis. This book looks at the semantics of natural languages in context. It presents an approach to the computational processing of English text that combines current t ...

Book cover for Gisli Palsson: Textual Life of Savants

Textual Life of Savants

Gisli Palsson
Paperback - $86.95



Book cover for Prashant Parikh: The Use of Language

The Use of Language

Prashant Parikh
Paperback - $56.95

Building on the work of J. L. Austin and Paul Grice, "The Use of Language develops an original and systematic game-theoretic account of communication, speaker meaning, and addressee interpretation, extending this analysis to conversational implicatur ...

Book cover for J. Peregrin: Meaning

Meaning : The Dynamic Turn

J. Peregrin
Hardcover - $196.95

In recent decades, many theories of formal semantics of natural language have undergone what can be called a dynamic turn: they have moved from treating language as a static system to considering it 'in action' and to taking meanings as crucially inv ...

Book cover for Manfred Pinkal: Logic and Lexicon

Logic and Lexicon : The Semantics of the Indefinite

Manfred Pinkal
Hardcover - $314.95

Semantic underspecification is an essential and pervasive property of natural language. This monograph provides a comprehensive survey of the various phenomena in the field of ambiguity and vagueness. The book discusses the major theories of semantic ...

Book cover for Paul R. Portney: Formal Semantics

Formal Semantics

Paul R. Portney
Paper Textbook - $127.95

The formal semantics approach to the study of natural language semantics was developed through active dialogue between linguistically minded philosophers and philosophically minded linguists and has become increasingly integrated into theoretical lin ...

Book cover for Boguraev Pustejovsky: Lexical Semantics

Lexical Semantics : The Problem of Polysemy

Boguraev Pustejovsky
Paperback - $184.95

Lexical ambiguity presents one of the most intractable problems for language processing studies and, not surprisingly, it is at the core of research in lexical semantics. Originally published as two special issues of the Journal of Semantics, this co ...

Book cover for James Pustejovsky: Semantics and the Lexicon

Semantics and the Lexicon

James Pustejovsky
Hardcover - $468.95

This book integrates the research being carried out in the field of lexical semantics in linguistics with the work on knowledge representation and lexicon design in computational linguistics. Rarely do these two camps meet and discuss the demands and ...

Book cover for Victor Raskin: Semantic Mechanisms of Humor

Semantic Mechanisms of Humor

Victor Raskin
Hardcover - $377.95



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