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A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy / by J. F. W. Herschel (1833) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1833 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index... more

Geometrical analysis and geometry of curve lines being volume second of a course of mathematics and designed as an introduction to the study of natural philosophy. By John Leslie (1821)

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1821 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index... more

First lines of natural philosophy divested of mathematical formulae : being a practical and lucid introduction to the study of the science : designed for the use of schools and academies and for

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Volume: c.1 Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1845 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint.... more

A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy / by John Frederick William Herschel (1839) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1839 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index... more

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Studies in Natural History: The Gulf of California : Biodiversity and Conservation (Hardcover)

9780816527397. Pre-owned: Good condition. Hard cover. 2nd ed. Language: English. Pages: 400. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 400 p. Contains: Illustrations. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Studies in Natural History. Few places in the world can claim... more

Language Games and Evolution: Trends in Current Research on Language and Game Theory (Paperback)

Recent years witnessed an increased interest in formal pragmatics and especially the establishment of game theory as a new research methodology for the study of language use. Game and Decision Theory (GDT) are natural candidates if we look for a... more

Linguistic Inquiry Monographs: Anaphora and Language Design (Series #62) (Paperback)

A study on anaphoric dependencies that derives the conditions on anaphora in natural language from the design properties of the language system. more

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics: Events Phrases and Questions (Paperback)

This book examines some knotty problems in natural language. These typically involve questions where the sense or the grammaticality of an utterance teeters on or over the edge of acceptability among native speakers. The phenomena in question have been... more

Frontiers of Cognitive Science: Evaluative Semantics: Cognition Language and Ideology (Hardcover)

Evaluation from connotations to complex judgements of value is probably the most neglected dimension of meaning. Calling for a new understanding of truth and value this book is a comprehensive study of evaluation in natural language at lexical... more

Science Technology and Culture 1700-1945: The Language of Mineralogy (Hardcover)

Classification is an important part of science yet the specific methods used to construct Enlightenment systems of natural history have proven to be the bÃate noir of studies of eighteenth-century culture. One reason that systematic classification has... more

The Message of A Course In Miracles : A Translation of the Text in Plain Language (Paperback)

In the mid-1970s A Course in Miracles was published. It is a self-study course designed to help you undo your conscious and unconscious beliefs that you are separate from God so that you can return to your natural State of Boundless Love Peace and Joy.... more

Practicing a Course in Miracles : A Translation of the Workbook in Plain Language and with Mentoring Notes (Paperback)

In the mid-1970s A Course in Miracles was published. It is a self-study course designed to help you undo your conscious and unconscious beliefs that you are separate from God so that you can return to your natural State of Boundless Love Peace and Joy.... more

Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology: Aspects of Semantic Opposition in English (Hardcover)

Antonymy is recognized as an important type of meaning relation in natural language yet there are very few detailed empirical studies of the topic. Through an analysis of a corpus of forty-three contemporary English-language novels Mettinger isolates... more

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture: Orientalism Modernism and the American Poem (Paperback)

Orientalism Modernism and the American Poem is a critical and historical interpretation of Oriental influences on American modernist poetry. Kern equates Fenollosa and Pound s discovery of Chinese writing with the American pursuit of a natural language... more

Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics: Focus Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese: A Comparative Perspective (Paperback)

One prominent function of natural language is to convey information. One peculiarity is that it does not do so randomly but in a structured way with information structuring formally recognized to be a component of grammar. Among all information... more

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics: The Syntax of Argument Structure (Paperback)

Each verb in natural language is associated with a set of arguments which are not systematically predictable from the verb s meaning and are realized syntactically as the projected sentence s subject direct object etc. Babby puts forward the theory... more

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics: Referential-Semantic Analysis: Aspects of a Theory of Linguistic Reference (Paperback)

Dr Thrane makes an original contribution to one of the central topics in syntax and semantics: the nature and mechanisms of reference in natural language. He makes a fundamental distinction between syntactic analyses that are internal to the structure... more

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics: The Syntax of Argument Structure (Hardcover)

Each verb in natural language is associated with a set of arguments which are not systematically predictable from the verb s meaning and are realized syntactically as the projected sentence s subject direct object etc. Babby puts forward the theory... more

Studies in Contemporary Phrase Structure Grammar (Paperback)

This book explores a variety of central issues in the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) a major theory of syntactic representation that is becoming increasingly dominant particularly in the domain of natural language computation.... more

Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax: XP-Adjunction in Universal Grammar: Scrambling and Binding in Hindi-Urdu (Paperback)

One of the most hotly debated phenomena in natural language is that of leftward argument scrambling. This book investigates the properties of Hindi-Urdu scrambling to show that it must be analyzed as uniformly a focality-driven XP-adjunction operation.... more

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics: Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar (Paperback)

The key argument of this book originally published in 1984 is that when human beings communicate with each other by means of a natural language they typically do not do so in simple sentences but rather in connected discourse - complex expressions made... more

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics: Grammatical Voice (Paperback)

Categories of the verb in natural languages include tense aspect modality (mood) and voice. Among these voice in its rich and diverse manifestations is perhaps the most complex. But most prior research concentrates on only certain types predominantly... more

Linguistic Fieldwork (Paperback)

This collection of original essays on the practice of linguistic fieldwork and language documentation by twelve leading field linguists considers the study of languages in a natural setting. Drawing on extensive research experience the authors review... more

English Phrasal Verbs in Ontological Semantics (Paperback)

The purpose of the present study is to describe and analyze the acquisition of English Phrasal Verbs into the Knowledge Base Acquisition Editor a Natural Language Processing database based on the framework of the ontological semantics theory. The... more

Topics in English Linguistics: Cardinal Numerals: Old English from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Hardcover)

The book embeds a description and an analysis of the Old English numeral system into a broader cross-linguistic discussion. It provides a theoretical framework for the study of numerals and numeral systems of natural languages bridging the gap between... more

Intermediate Pieces for Classical Guitar (Paperback)

Intermediate Pieces for Classical Guitar features 20 carefully selected pieces aimed at Intermediate players who want to learn to play entire pieces. The natural progression of the studies will help you develop your classical guitar language quickly... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Directionality and Logical Form: On the Scope of Focusing Particles and Wh-In-Situ (Paperback)

Directionality and Logical Form provides a detailed treatment of the syntax of focusing particles such as only and even in a cross-linguistic perspective. The derivation of logical forms is shown to be under the control not only of the ECP and... more

Studies in Natural Language Processing: Distributional Semantics (Hardcover)

Distributional semantics develops theories and methods to represent the meaning of natural language expressions with vectors encoding their statistical distribution in linguistic contexts. It is at once a theoretical model to express meaning a... more

Studies in Natural Language Processing: Annotation-Based Semantics for Space and Time in Language (Hardcover)

Space and time representation in language is important in linguistics and cognitive science research as well as artificial intelligence applications like conversational robots and navigation systems. This book is the first for linguists and computer... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax (Paperback)

o. COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX This volume contains 13 papers that were prepared for the Seventh Workshop on Comparative Germanie Syntax at the University of Stuttgart in November 1991. In defining the theme both of the workshop and of this volume we... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Phi-Features and the Modular Architecture of Language (Hardcover)

This monograph investigates the modular architecture of language through the nature of uninterpretable phi-features: person number gender and Case. It provides new tools and evidence for the modular architecture of the human language faculty. more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Dynamic Antisymmetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation (Hardcover)

This innovative analysis of noun incorporation and related linguistic phenomena does more than just give readers an insightful exploration of its subject. The author re-evaluates--and forges links between--two influential theories of phrase structure:... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Noun Phrases and Nominalizations: The Syntax of Dps (Paperback)

Noun Phrases and Nominalizations: The Syntax of DPs is a theoretical study of nominal expressions which covers central aspects of their syntax that have not been approached with concurrent tools in recent years. The study examines the functional... more

Pre-Owned Building Nat Lang Generation Syst (Studies in Natural Language Processing) Paperback

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Pre-Owned Italian Syntax: A Government-Binding Approach: 1 (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 1) Paperback

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Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Case Absorption and Wh-Agreement (Hardcover)

This book is an extensively revised version of the core part of my 1993 MIT doctoral dissertation which seeks to provide a Minimalist theory of Case absorption and support it through empirical investigation. The central idea pursued is that... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Tzotzil Clause Structure (Paperback)

xv NOTES ON THE ORTHOGRAPHY AND CITATIONS xxi LIST OF ABBREVIA TIONS XXIIl CHAPTER 1: GRAMMATICAL NOTES 1 1. Introduction 1 2. Basics 1 3. Major Lexical Classes 2 3. 1. V 3 3. 2. N 3 3. 3. A 5 3. 3. 1. Quantifiers 6 3. 3. 2. Existentials and Locatives... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Roots and Patterns: Hebrew Morpho-Syntax (Paperback)

This book is simultaneously a theoretical study in morphosyntax and an in-depth empirical study of Hebrew. Based on Hebrew data the book defends the status of the root as a lexical and phonological unit and argues that roots rather than verbs or nouns... more