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Perry John

ISBN: PB: 9781684000500, ISBN: HB: 9781684000494, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2021
489 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book gathers together in one volume many influential papers by renowned philosopher of language John Perry.

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Syntax-Semantics Interface

Hajicova Eva

ISBN: PB: 9788024637143, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Syntax-Semantics Interface" is a collection of papers written by leading Czech linguist Eva Hajicova between 1973 and 2014 that draw on the theoretical framework of the functional generat...

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Shaping Phonology

Brentari Diane, Lee Jackson L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226562452, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 26 line drawings, 6 tables

Within the past forty years, the field of phonology – a branch of linguistics that explores both the sound structures of spoken language and the analogous phonemes of sign language, as well as how these features of language are used to convey meaning...

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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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Spoken Sibe Morphology of the Inflected Parts of Speech

Zikmundova Veronika

ISBN: PB: 9788024621036, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, June 2013
212 pp., 24x17 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At present, the Sibe language is the only still-active oral variety of Manchu, the language of the indigenous tribe of Manchuria. With some 20,000 to 30,000 speakers it is also the most wi...

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Selected Papers on Fun and Games

Knuth Donald E.

ISBN: PB: 9781575865843, ISBN: HB: 9781575865850, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, December 2010
600 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Donald E. Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of methods for translating and defining programming languages to the creation of the TeX and METAFONT systems for desktop publishing. His award-winning textbooks have become cl...

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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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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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