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A 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. It includes several practice exercises and activities; a range of culturally relevant topics and dialogues; a reference glossary; and tips on culturally appropriate behavior.

This book presents a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches to language use.

The papers in this volume are intended to further compare and/or contrast research in both the Japanese and Korean languages.

Explores the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of colour lexicons.

A useful and timely volume on algebraic logic and related areas, with contributions by leading people in the field.

Among the philosophers of mind and language in recent decades, Donald Davidson articualted "amomalous monism" as well as ideas for unifying the theory of linguistic meaning with semantics for natural language. This book includes essays on Davidson by his contempories and his own replies.

Papers on the topic of ambiguity and under specification.

This volume presents contributions to quanti er theory and its applications and gives a good impression of the depth and diversity of recent work in the eld.

This collection addresses a range of structurally relevant aspects of meaning.

This book describes several aspects of syntax and semantics of romance languages.

A textbook/software package that 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. It also includes applications for mobile devices, exercises, and a dedicated website.

Arabic is an exciting - yet challenging - language for scholars. This book documents the work of researchers in both academia and industry who have taken up the challenge of solving the real-life problems posed by an understudied language. It explores Arabic machine translation systems, and innovations in speech recognition and mention detection.

This is a synthesis of work on the structure, meaning and use of negation and negative expression. It aims to provide a full picture of negation in natural language and thought.

A method of introducing students to the language of first-order logic. It helps students learn the meanings of connectives and qualifiers and soon become fluent in the symbolic language at the core of modern logic.

This second edition of "Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction" expands and improves upon a truly unique introductory syntax textbook. Like the first edition, its focus is on the development of precisely formulated grammars whose empirical predictions can be directly tested. There is also considerable emphasis on the prediction and evaluation of grammatical hypotheses, as well as on integrating syntactic hypotheses with matters of semantic analysis.The book covers the core areas of English syntax from the last quarter century, including complementation, control, "raising constructions," passives, the auxiliary system, and the analysis of long distance dependency constructions. "Syntactic Theory's step-by-step introduction to a consistent grammar in these core areas is complemented by extensive problem sets drawing from a variety of languages.""The book's theoretical perspective is presented in the context of current models of language processing, and the practical value of the constraint-based, lexicalist grammatical architecture proposed has already been demonstrated in computer language processing applications. This thoroughly reworked second edition includes revised and extended problem sets, updated analyses, additional examples, and more detailed exposition throughout.""Praise for the first edition: """Syntactic Theory sets a new standard for introductory syntax volumes that all future books should be measured against."--Gert Webelhuth, Journal of Linguistics"

How does a computer scientist understand infinity? What can probability theory teach us about free will? This book contains six informal lectures by computer scientist Donald E. Knuth exploring the relationship between his vocation and his faith.

This volume provides an update on the development and application of broad-coverage declarative grammars built on sound linguistic foundations and presents research efforts to produce comprehensive, re-usable grammars and efficient technology for parsing and generating with such grammars.

This text explores the question of how linguistic practices and ideologies relate to sexuality and sexual identity, opening with a discussion of the field of "queer linguistics" and moving from theory into practice with case studies of language use in a variety of cultural settings.

This volume is devoted to Analysis of Algorithms, a field that Knuth founded and still considers his main life's work.