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Languages of Scandinavia Seven Sisters of the North

Sanders Ruth H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226759753, ISBN: HB: 9780226493893, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 3 line drawings, 4 tables

From fjords to mountains, schools of herring to herds of reindeer, Scandinavia is rich in astonishing natural beauty. Less well known, however, is that it is also rich in languages. Home to seven languages, Scandinavia has traditionally been understo...

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Lexical and Semantic Aspects of Proverbs

Cermak Frantisek

ISBN: PB: 9788024643588, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2020
243 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book is linguistic in nature, offering a number of aspects of contemporary languages and their proverbs. Focusing mostly on lexical, semantic and pragmatic aspects, the book also explores language corpora findings. Apart from collecting data on...

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LingVis Visual Analytics for Linguistics

Butt Miriam, Hautli-Janisz Annette, Lyding Verena

ISBN: PB: 9781684000333, ISBN: HB: 9781684000340, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume collects landmark research in a burgeoning field of visual analytics for linguistics, called LingVis. Combining linguistic data and linguistically oriented research questions with techniques and methodologies developed in the computer sci...

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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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Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, Volume 9 Perspectives on Semantic Representations for Textual Inference

Zaenen Annie, Condoravdi Cleo, de Paiva Valeria

ISBN: PB: 9781575868448, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2015
364 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (LiLT)" is an open-access journal that focuses on the relationships between linguistic insights and language technology. In conjunction with machine learning and statistical techniques, deeper and more sophis...

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Language and the Creative Mind

Dancygier Barbara, Borkent Mike, Hinnell Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9781575866710, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2014
420 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume brings together papers from the 11th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference, held in Vancouver in May 2012. In the last few years, the cognitive study of language has begun to examine the interaction between language and...

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Language, Proof, and Logic Second Edition

Barker-Plummer David, Barwise Jon, Etchemendy John

ISBN: PB + CD: 9781575866321, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2011
650 pp., 23x20.5 cm

This textbook/software package covers first-order language in a method appropriate for a wide range of courses, from first logic courses for undergraduates (philosophy, mathematics, and computer science) to a first graduate logic course. The accompan...

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Language from a Cognitive Perspective Grammar, Usage, and Processing

Bender Emily M., Arnold Jennifer E.

ISBN: PB: 9781575866109, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2011
220 pp., 23x15 cm

This book is a collection of papers on language processing, usage, and grammar, written to commemorate the career of Thomas Wasow on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. Wasow has been professor of linguistics and philosophy at Stanford Universi...

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Little Book of Language

Crystal David

ISBN: PB: 9780300170825, Yale University Press, March 2011
272 pp., 21.1x14 cm, 40 illus.

With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a youn...

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Layers of Aspect

Hofherr Patricia Cabredo, Laca Brenda

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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