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Polonica

Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited New Answers to Old Questions

Blaszczak Joanna, Giannakidou Anastasia, Klimek-Jankowska Dorota, Migdalski Krzysztof

ISBN: HB: 9780226363523, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 15 line drawings, 14 tables

Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with a strongly growing body of crosslinguistic studies, has revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these...

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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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Anthropology

Linguistics

Translating Worlds The Epistemological Space of Translation

Severi Carlo, Hanks William F.

ISBN: PB: 9780986132513, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2015
245 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

Set against the backdrop of anthropology's recent focus on various "turns" (whether ontological, ethical, or otherwise), this pathbreaking volume returns to the question of knowledge and the role of translation as a theoretical and ethnographic guide...

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Linguistics

From Syntax to Text The Janus Face of Functional Sentence Perspective

Duskova Libuse

ISBN: PB: 9788024628790, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2015
400 pp., 24x16.5 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The volume deals with the interaction between syntax, informational structure (or functional sentence perspective), and text in present-day English and Czech. Libuše Duškova...

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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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Linguistics

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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Linguistics

Predicative Constructions From the Fregean to a Montagovian Treatment

Van Eynde Frank

ISBN: PB: 9781575868370, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

There are multitudes of ways in which predicative constructions can be analyzed. In this book, Frank Van Eynde differentiates between the Fregean and Montagovian treatments of these constructions in order to better understand predicative construction...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 21

Nam Seungho, Ko Heejeong, Jun Jongho

ISBN: PB: 9781575866543, ISBN: HB: 9781575866536, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
500 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart in the latter. The papers in this volume are from the twenty-first Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at Se...

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