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Polysemy : Theoretical and Computational Approaches
Yael Ravin
Hardcover - $427.95
Polysemy is a term used in semantic and lexical analysis to describe a word with multiple meanings. Although such words present few difficulties in everyday communication, they do pose near-intractable problems for linguists and lexicographers. The c ...
Take My Words : A Wordaholic's Guide to the English Language
Howard Richler
Paperback - $21.95
In this entertaining and informative book, Howard Richler invites readers to enjoy the pleasures to be found in exploring the language that is rapidly becoming the world's lingua franca. With over 400 varieties of English spoken today, words and idio ...
Events and Grammar
Susan Rothstein
Paperback - $70.95
In recent years, the study of events and their role as implicit arguments of predicates has been at the center of much important work in semantics and the syntax/semantics interface. This volume brings together fourteen original studies by leading sc ...
Predicates and Their Subjects, Series : Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, Vol. 74
Susan Rothstein
Paperback - $72.95
Predicates and their Subjects is an in-depth study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation. Starting from where the author's 1983 dissertation left off, the book argues that there is syntactic con ...
Sentential Negation in French
Paul Rowlett
Paperback - $139.95
This is the first full-length study of sentential negation phenomena in French. Paul Rowlett assesses, from a generative perspective, the respective contribution made to the expression of clausal polarity by ne, pas, and elements such as jamais and p ...
Computational Lexical Semantics
Patrick Saint-Dizier
Paperback - $153.95
Computational Lexical Semantics is one of the first volumes to provide models for the creation of various kinds of computerized lexicons for the automatic treatment of natural language, with applications to, among other things, machine translation, a ...
The Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Deborah Schiffrin
Paperback - $111.95
The articles collected in The Handbook of Discourse Analysis comprise a foundational paradigm for discourse that is broad enough to support a variety of approaches, methods, and even definitions regarding discourse.The volume begins with an overview ...
