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Philosophy

Logic and Pragmatism Selected Essays by Giovanni Vailati

Arrighi Claudia, Cantu Paola de Zan Mauro, Suppes Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9781575865904, ISBN: HB: 9781575865911, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
350 pp., 23x15 cm

Logic and Pragmatism features a number of the key writings of Giovanni Vailati (1863-1909), the Italian mathematician and philosopher renowned for his work in mechanics, geometry, logic, and epistemology. The selections in this book – many of which a...

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Mathematics

Computer Science & Internet

Selected Papers on Design of Algorithms

Knuth Donald E.

ISBN: HB: 9781575865836, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
453 pp., 23x15 cm

Donald 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 class...

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Linguistics

Meaning, Form, and Body

Turner Mark, Parrill Fey, Tobin Vera

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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Linguistics

Reality Exploration and Discovery Pattern Interaction in Language and Life

Uyechi Linda Ann, Wee Lian-Hee

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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Linguistics

Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages

Daniele Godard

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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Linguistics

Modal Logic for Open Minds

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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Linguistics

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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Linguistics

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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Linguistics

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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