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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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Grammatical Framework Programming with Multilingual Grammars

Ranta Aarne

ISBN: PB: 9781575866260, ISBN: HB: 9781575866277, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2011
340 pp., 23x15 cm

Grammatical Framework is a programming language designed for writing grammars, which has the capability of addressing several languages in parallel. This thorough introduction demonstrates how to write grammars in Grammatical Framework and use them i...

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Comparative Eskimo Dictionary With Aleut Cognates (Second Edition)

Fortescue Michael, Jacobson Steven, Kaplan Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9781555001094, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
720 pp., 28x21.5 cm

An updated and comprehensive reference to the Aleut-Eskimo languages spoken from the northeastern tip of Siberia all the way east to Greenland, this easy-to-use volume groups related words from the modern Eskimo languages in comparative sets with the...

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Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 18

McClure William, Dikken Marcel

ISBN: PB: 9781575866161, ISBN: HB: 9781575866178, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2011
456 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Because Japanese and Korean are typologically quite similar, a linguistic phenomenon in one language often has a counterpart in the other. The annual Japanese-Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for presenting research that will deepen our...

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Dynamics of Lexical Interfaces

Kempson Ruth, Gregoromichelaki Eleni, Howes Christine

ISBN: PB: 9781575866147, ISBN: HB: 9781575866154, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2011
402 pp., 22.2x15.2 cm

Dynamic Syntax is a formal model of utterance description that attempts to articulate and substantiate the claim that human linguistic knowledge is essentially the ability to process language in context. The model provides an explicit demonstration o...

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World Color Survey

Kay Paul, Berlin Brent, Maffi Luisa, Merrifield William R., Cook Richard

ISBN: PB: 9781575864167, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2011
600 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

The 1969 publication of Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's "Basic Color Terms" proved explosive and controversial. Contrary to the then-popular doctrine of random language variation, Berlin and Kay's multilingual study of color nomenclature indicated a cros...

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Linguistics

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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Let's Speak Twi A Proficiency Course in Akan Language and Culture

Bodomo Adams, Marfo Charles, Hall-Lew Lauren

ISBN: PB: 9781575866048, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, December 2010
150 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 35 halftones

"Let's Speak Twi" is an introductory language-learning textbook for speakers of English and other languages who seek proficiency in Akan Twi, the most widely used and understood native language of Ghana. Included in the book are several practice exer...

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Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive – Functional Research

Rice Sally, Newman John

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

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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