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Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive – Functional Research
ISBN: PB: 9781575866123, ISBN: HB: 9781575866130, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, December 2010
369 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive – Functional Research" consists of selected papers from the seventh meeting of the Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference, held at the University of Alberta in October 2004. The paper...
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Layers of Aspect
ISBN: PB: 9781575865966, ISBN: HB: 9781575865973, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2010
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The eight articles in this volume reexamine the syntactic and semantic analyses of aspect that have been proposed mainly on the basis of aspectual expressions in English. The authors contrast expressions sharing an analogous morpho-syntactic make-up...
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Meaning, Form, and Body
ISBN: PB: 9781575865942, ISBN: HB: 9781575865959, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
350 pp., 23x15 cm
"Meaning, Form, and Body" brings together renowned figures in the field of cognitive linguistics to discuss two related research areas in the study of linguistics: the integration of form and meaning and language and the human body. Among the numerou...
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Craft of Scientific Communication
ISBN: PB: 9780226316628, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 21 halftones, 12 line illus.
The ability to communicate in print and person is essential to the life of a successful scientist. But since writing is often secondary in scientific education and teaching, there remains a significant need for guides that teach scientists how best t...
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Reality Exploration and Discovery Pattern Interaction in Language and Life
ISBN: PB: 9781575865881, ISBN: HB: 9781575865898, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
438 pp., 23x15 cm
The twenty-five papers in this volume present current analyses of a variety of data and, more significantly, illustrate the various analytical tools available to linguists in the quest for deeper comprehension of the puzzles, questions, and problems...
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Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages
ISBN: PB: 9781575865867, ISBN: HB: 9781575865874, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
420 pp., 23x15 cm
"Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages" compares six Romance languages – Catalan, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian – and summarizes the last thirty years of scholarship in the fields of morphology, syntax, semantics, and disco...
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Modal Logic for Open Minds
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
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
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
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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