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Tokens of Meaning Papers in Honor of Lauri Karttunen

Condoravdi Cleo, Holloway King Tracy

ISBN: PB: 9781684000487, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, May 2019
599 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Lauri Karttunen has done groundbreaking work in theoretical and computational linguistics. The papers in this volume present new, state-of-the-art work building on his numerous contributions. The first part includes papers on formal semantics, the fo...

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Linguistics

Revealing Structure

Buckley Eugene, Crane Thera, Good Jeff

ISBN: PB: 9781684000296, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2018
292 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Drawing from a wide range of perspectives in the analysis of grammatical structures, the papers collected in this book are unified not by linguistic subfield, but by the investigative method they employ in revealing grammatical patterns".Revealing St...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 24

Funakoshi Kenshi

ISBN: PB: 9781684000241, ISBN: HB: 9781684000258, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2018
400 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, on both language...

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Logical Reasoning with Diagrams and Sentences Using Hyperproof

Barker-Plummer David, Barwise Jon, Etchemendy John

ISBN: PB: 9781575869513, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2017
227 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 27 figures

The "Logical Reasoning with Diagrams and Sentences" courseware package teaches the principles of analytical reasoning and proof construction using a carefully crafted combination of textbook, desktop, and online materials. This package is sure to be...

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Philosophy

Linguistics

Meaning, Creativity, and the Partial Inscrutability of the Human Mind Second Edition

Moravcsik Julius M.

ISBN: PB: 9781575864808, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
218 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This book criticizes current philosophy of language as having altered its focus without adjusting the needed conceptual tools. It develops a new theory of lexical meaning and a new conception of cognition – humans not as information-processing creatu...

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Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 23

Levin Theodore, Masuda Ryo, Kenstowicz Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781575867526, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2016
400 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, of both language...

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Japanese

Linguistics

Readings in Japanese Natural Language Processing

Bond Francis

ISBN: PB: 9781575867533, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2016
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Readings in Japanese Natural Language Processing" surveys a wide range of texts that explore Japanese morphology and syntactic analysis, discourse, and natural language process applications. Presenting such techniques in a manner accessible to those...

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Linguistics

Automaton Theories of Human Sentence Comprehension

Hale John T.

ISBN: PB: 9781575867472, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, October 2015
204 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

By relating grammar to cognitive architecture, John T. Hale shows step-by-step how incremental parsing works in models of perceptual processing and how specific learning rules might lead to frequency-sensitive preferences. Along the way, Hale reconsi...

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Linguistics

Semantic Properties of Diagrams and Their Cognitive Potentials

Shimojima Atsushi

ISBN: PB: 9781575868493, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2015
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Why are diagrams sometimes so useful, facilitating our understanding and thinking, while at other times they can be unhelpful and even misleading? Drawing on a comprehensive survey of modern research in philosophy, logic, artificial intelligence, cog...

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What Is Said and What Is Not The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface

Penco Carlo, Domaneschi Filippo

ISBN: HB: 9781575866680, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume contains essays that explore explicit and implicit communication through linguistic research. Taking as a framework Paul Grice's theories on "what is said", the contributors explore a number of areas, including: the boundary between seman...

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