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Benthem Johan

ISBN: PB: 9781575865980, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
350 pp., 23x15 cm

In "Modal Logic for Open Minds", Johan van Benthem provides an up-to-date introduction to the field of modal logic, outlining its major ideas and exploring the numerous ways in which various academic fields have adopted it. Van Benthem begins with th...

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Grammar, Geometry, and Brain

Fenstad Jens Erik

ISBN: PB: 9781575865928, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
120 pp., 23x15 cm

This original study considers the effects of language and meaning on the brain. Jens Erik Fenstad – an expert in the fields of recursion theory, nonstandard analysis, and natural language semantics – combines current formal semantics with a geometric...

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Gesture and Thought

McNeill David

ISBN: PB: 9780226514635, ISBN: HB: 9780226514628, University of Chicago Press, September 2007
328 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 92 figures, 13 tables

Gesturing is such an integral yet unconscious part of communication that we are mostly oblivious to it. But if you observe anyone in conversation, you are likely to see his or her fingers, hands, and arms in some form of spontaneous motion. Why? Davi...

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Surprised in Translation

Caws Mary Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780226098739, University of Chicago Press, September 2006
128 pp., 21.9x15 cm, 2 halftones

For Mary Ann Caws – noted translator of surrealist poetry – the most appealing translations are also the oddest; the unexpected, unpredictable, and unmimetic turns that translations take are an endless source of fascination and instruction".Surprised...

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Form and Meaning in Language Volume I: Papers on Semantic Roles

Fillmore Charles J.

ISBN: PB: 9781575862866, ISBN: HB: 9781575862859, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2002
311 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The early papers collected here trace a trajectory through the work and thinking of Charles Fillmore over his long and distinguished career – reflecting his desire to make sense of the workings of language in a way that keeps in mind questions of lan...

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Phonetic Symbol Guide

Pullum Geoffrey K., Ladusaw William A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226685366, ISBN: HB: 9780226685359, University of Chicago Press, July 1996
358 pp., 20.3x13.2 cm, 375 line drawings

"Phonetic Symbol Guide" is a comprehensive and authoritative encyclopedia of phonetic alphabet symbols, providing a complete survey of the hundreds of characters used by linguists and speech scientists to record the sounds of the world's languages....

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Simple and Direct A Rhetoric for Writers (Revised Edition)

Barzun Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226038681, University of Chicago Press, June 1994
314 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm

In "Simple and Direct", Jacques Barzun, celebrated author and educator, distills from a lifetime of writing and teaching his thoughts about the craft of writing. In chapters on diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision, Barzun describ...

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English Verb Classes and Alternations A Preliminary Investigation

Levin Beth

ISBN: PB: 9780226475332, University of Chicago Press, September 1993
366 pp., 23x15 cm

In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning influences its syntactic behavior and develops it into a powerful tool for st...

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Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages

Darling Buck Carl

ISBN: PB: 9780226079370, University of Chicago Press, June 1988
416 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm

Originally published in 1949 and appearing now for the first time in a paperbound edition, Buck's "Dictionary" remains an indispensable tool for diachronic analysis of the Indo-European languages. Arranged according to the meaning of words, the work...

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Natural Language Processing in the 1980s A Bibliography

Gazdar Gerald, Evans Roger, Franz Alex, Osborn Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780937073285, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 1988
236 pp., 23x15 cm

This book is the first comprehensive bibliography of recent work in the rapidly developing field of natural language processing and computational linguistics. It contains essentially all the relevant 1980s papers to be found in AAAI, ACL, AISB, COLIN...

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