ilość książek w kategorii: 3935
Minimal Semantics
ISBN: 9780199270255 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Minimal Semantics asks what a theory of literal linguistic meaning is for--if you were to be given a working theory of meaning for a language right now, what would you be able to do with it? Emma Borg sets out to defend a formal approach to semantic theorizing from a relatively new type of opponent--advocates of what she calls "dual pragmatics." According to dual pragmatists, rich pragmatic processes play two distinct roles in linguistic comprehension: as well as operating in a post-semantic capacity to determine the implicatures of an utterance, they also operate prior to the determination...
Minimal Semantics asks what a theory of literal linguistic meaning is for--if you were to be given a working theory of meaning for a language right no...
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594,85 zł |
Simpler Syntax
ISBN: 9780199271085 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language. The fundamental issue it addresses is the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and lexicon. It argues that the balance struck by mainstream generative grammar is wrong. It puts forward a new basis for syntactic theory, drawing on a wide range of frameworks, and charts new directions for research.
In the past four decades, theories of syntactic structure have become more abstract, and syntactic derivations have become ever... This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language. The fundamental issue it addresses is the proper ...
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472,24 zł |
Two-Dimensional Semantics
ISBN: 9780199271955 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Two-dimensional semantics is a framework that helps us better understand some of the most fundamental issues in philosophy: those having to do with the relationship between the meaning of words, the way the world is, and our knowledge of the meaning of words. This selection of new essays by some of the world's leading authorities in this field sheds fresh light both on foundational issues regarding two-dimensional semantics and on its specific applications.
Contributors: Richard Breheny, Alex Byrne, David Chalmers, Martin Davies, Gareth Evans, Manuel Garcia-Carpintero, Josep Macia,... Two-dimensional semantics is a framework that helps us better understand some of the most fundamental issues in philosophy: those having to do with th...
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631,63 zł |
Two-Dimensional Semantics
ISBN: 9780199272020 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Two-dimensional semantics is a framework that helps us better understand some of the most fundamental issues in philosophy: those having to do with the relationship between the meaning of words, the way the world is, and our knowledge of the meaning of words. This selection of new essays by some of the world's leading authorities in this field sheds fresh light both on foundational issues regarding two-dimensional semantics and on its specific applications.
Contributors: Richard Breheny, Alex Byrne, David Chalmers, Martin Davies, Gareth Evans, Manuel Garcia-Carpintero, Josep Macia,... Two-dimensional semantics is a framework that helps us better understand some of the most fundamental issues in philosophy: those having to do with th...
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224,50 zł |
Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification: The Typology of Depictives
ISBN: 9780199272266 / Angielski / Twarda / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication - a hot topic in syntax and semantics research - from a crosslinguistic perspective. It maps out all the relevant phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties.
This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication - a hot topic in syntax and semantics research - from a crosslinguistic perspective...
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344,72 zł |
The Logic of Conventional Implicatures
ISBN: 9780199273829 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics. H. Paul Grice first defined the concept. Since then his definition has seen much use and many redefinitions, but it has never enjoyed a stable place in linguistic theory. Christopher Potts returns to the original and uses it as a key into two presently under-studied areas of natural language: supplements (appositives, parentheticals) and expressives (e.g., honorifics, epithets). The account of both depends on a theory in which sentence meanings can be multidimensional. The theory is logically and...
This book revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics. H. Paul Grice first defined the concept. Since then his defini...
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354,52 zł |
Attitude Problems: An Essay on Linguistic Intensionality
ISBN: 9780199274949 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Ascriptions of mental states to oneself and others give rise to many interesting logical and semantic problems. Attitude Problems presents an original account of mental state ascriptions that are made using intensional transitive verbs such as "want," "seek," "imagine," and "worship." Forbes offers a theory of how such verbs work that draws on ideas from natural language semantics, philosophy of language, and aesthetics.
Ascriptions of mental states to oneself and others give rise to many interesting logical and semantic problems. Attitude Problems presents an original...
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509,02 zł |
Vagueness in Context
ISBN: 9780199280391 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Stewart Shapiro's ambition in Vagueness in Context is to develop a comprehensive account of the meaning, function, and logic of vague terms in an idealized version of a natural language like English. It is a commonplace that the extensions of vague terms vary according to their context: a person can be tall with respect to male accountants and not tall (even short) with respect to professional basketball players. The key feature of Shapiro's account is that the extensions of vague terms also vary in the course of conversations and that, in some cases, a competent speaker can go either way...
Stewart Shapiro's ambition in Vagueness in Context is to develop a comprehensive account of the meaning, function, and logic of vague terms in an idea...
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656,16 zł |
Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics
ISBN: 9780199290932 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The work of Donald Davidson (1917-2003) transformed the study of meaning. Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig, two of the world's leading authorities on Davidson's work, present the definitive study of his widely admired and influential program of truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages, giving an exposition and critical examination of its foundations and applications.
The work of Donald Davidson (1917-2003) transformed the study of meaning. Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig, two of the world's leading authorities on Davi...
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521,28 zł |
The Grammar of Names
ISBN: 9780199297412 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book is the first systematic account of the syntax and semantics of names. Drawing on work in onomastics, philosophy, and linguistics John Anderson examines the distribution and subcategorization of names within a framework of syntactic categories, and considers how the morphosyntactic behavior of names connects to their semantic roles. He argues that names occur in two basic circumstances: one involving vocatives and their use in naming predications, where they are not definite; the other their use as arguments of predicators, where they are definite. This division is discussed in...
This book is the first systematic account of the syntax and semantics of names. Drawing on work in onomastics, philosophy, and linguistics John Anders...
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388,86 zł |
Dynamics of Meaning: Anaphora, Presupposition, and the Theory of Grammar
ISBN: 9780226104355 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In "The Dynamics of Meaning," Gennaro Chierchia tackles central issues in dynamic semantics and extends the general framework.
Chapter 1 introduces the notion of dynamic semantics and discusses in detail the phenomena that have been used to motivate it, such as "donkey" sentences and adverbs of quantification. The second chapter explores in greater depth the interpretation of indefinites and issues related to presuppositions of uniqueness and the "E-type strategy." In Chapter 3, Chierchia extends the dynamic approach to the domain of syntactic theory, considering a range of empirical... In "The Dynamics of Meaning," Gennaro Chierchia tackles central issues in dynamic semantics and extends the general framework.
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326,97 zł |
Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics
ISBN: 9780230005334 / Angielski / Twarda / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors to this volume investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation.
All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contri...
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383,73 zł |
Global Semiotics
ISBN: 9780253339577 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The study of semiotics underwent a gradual but radical paradigm shift during the past century, from a glottocentric (language-centered) enterprise to one that encompasses the whole terrestrial biosphere. In this collection of 17 essays, Thomas A. Sebeok, one of the seminal thinkers in the field, shows how this progression took place. His wide-ranging discussion of the evolution of the field covers many facets, including discussions of biosemiotics, semiotics as a bridge between the humanities and natural sciences, semiosis, nonverbal communication, cat and horse behavior, the semiotic... The study of semiotics underwent a gradual but radical paradigm shift during the past century, from a glottocentric (language-centered) enterprise ... |
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207,08 zł |
Generative Lexicon
ISBN: 9780262661409 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Generative Lexicon presents a novel and exciting theory of lexical semantics that addresses the problem of the "multiplicity of word meaning"; that is, how we are able to give an infinite number of senses to words with finite means. The first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, it lays the foundation for an implemented computational treatment of word meaning that connects explicitly to a compositional semantics. In contrast to the static view of word meaning (where each word is characterized by a predetermined number of word senses) that... The Generative Lexicon presents a novel and exciting theory of lexical semantics that addresses the problem of the "multiplicity of word me... |
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245,62 zł |
Toward a Cognitive Semantics : Concept Structuring Systems
ISBN: 9780262700962 / Angielski / Miękka / 573 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) One of a two-volume set defining the field of cognitive semantics. Leonard Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and time, motion and location, causation and force interaction, and attention and viewpoint. Talmy maintains that these are among the most fundamental parameters by which language structures conception. By combining these conceptual domains into an integrated whole, Talmy shows, we advance our understanding of the overall conceptual and semantic... One of a two-volume set defining the field of cognitive semantics. Leonard Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual mater... |
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484,93 zł |
The Workings of Language: From Prescriptions to Perspectives
ISBN: 9780275962463 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The essays in this book help to make sense of the workings of language in our everyday world--on the personal, local, national, and international levels. The authors are all linguists, seeking to help readers free themselves of language prejudices, thus opening the way to better informed views on the function of language in society, a more balanced treatment in schools, and more linguistically-sound public policies. Defusing Chicken-Little prognostications about English, this volume suggests that dark claims about language are not to be taken at face value. Instead, these... The essays in this book help to make sense of the workings of language in our everyday world--on the personal, local, national, and international l... |
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228,83 zł |
The Alternative Mathematical Model of Linguistic Semantics and Pragmatics
ISBN: 9780306442698 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In opposition to the classical set theory of natural language, Novak's highly original monograph offers a theory based on alternative and fuzzy sets. This new approach is firmly grounded in semantics and pragmatics, and accounts for the vagueness inherent in natural language-filling a large gap in our current knowledge. The theory will foster fruitful debate among researchers in linguistics and artificial intellegence.
In opposition to the classical set theory of natural language, Novak's highly original monograph offers a theory based on alternative and fuzzy sets. ...
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383,73 zł |
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages
ISBN: 9780393300345 / Angielski / Miękka / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) But this book is more than a guide to foreign languages; it goes deep into the roots of all knowledge as it explores the history of speech. It lights up the dim pathways of prehistory and unfolds the story of the slow growth of human expression from the most primitive signs and sounds to the elaborate variations of the highest cultures. Without language no knowledge would be possible; here we see how language is at once the source and the reservoir of all we know.
But this book is more than a guide to foreign languages; it goes deep into the roots of all knowledge as it explores the history of speech. It lights ...
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106,63 zł |
Nominalizations
ISBN: 9780415060202 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Based on extensive and diverse material from 70 languages, and covering a range of previously undiscussed problems, this book provides a thorough analysis of how nominalization types interact with other structural features. It focuses on action nominal constructions, and in particular, the comparison of their syntactic structure with that of finite clauses and of other noun phrases, a problem which has claimed much attention in current syntactic theories. Supported by rich empirical material and clearly illustrated with examples from all the sample languages, the book provides a detailed and...
Based on extensive and diverse material from 70 languages, and covering a range of previously undiscussed problems, this book provides a thorough anal...
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750,67 zł |
Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs
ISBN: 9780415160506 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This concise edition of the three-volume Dictionary of European Proverbs constitutes a collection of proverbs in 29 languages. Arranged alphabetically according to the English equivalent, the 25,000 entires are checked by native language speakers and language specialists. The book should serve as a reference guide for linguistics and all those with an interest in ethnology and folklore.
This concise edition of the three-volume Dictionary of European Proverbs constitutes a collection of proverbs in 29 languages. Arranged alphabetically...
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1346,03 zł |