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Studies in natural history. Volume 9(1920-1921) (1921) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Volume: v.9(1920-1921) Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1921 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d... more

Studies in natural history. Volume 8(1918-1920) (1920) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Volume: v.8(1918-1920) Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1920 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d... more

University of Iowa studies in natural history Volume 8 (1918-20) (1920) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Volume: v.8 (1918-20) Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1920 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d... more

Studies in natural history. Volume c.1 8 1918-20 (1920) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Volume: c.1 v.8 1918-20 Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1920 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d... more

Pre-Owned North South East West: American Indians and the Natural World (Paperback 9781570981975) by Marsha C Bol

9781570981975. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 176. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 176 p. Contains: Illustrations. Native American Studies. Vibrant photographs and cultural lore are woven into a beautifully... more

Pre-Owned The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide (Hardcover 9780393019650) by Richard Conniff

9780393019650. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 344. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 344 p. Contains: Illustrations. A tantalizing droll study of the idiosyncratic existence of the very rich through the unexpected lens... more

Pre-Owned The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas: Natural History New (Hardcover 9780773538764) by Nicolas François-Marc Gagnon Nancy Senior

9780773538764. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Annotated. Language: English. Pages: 676. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 676 p. Contains: Illustrations. McGill-Queen s/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Ar 5. Part art part science part... more

Studies in Natural Language Processing: Ontology and the Lexicon: A Natural Language Processing Perspective (Hardcover)

The relation between ontologies and language is currently at the forefront of natural language processing (NLP). Ontologies as widely used models in semantic technologies have much in common with the lexicon. A lexicon organizes words as a conventional... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Minimalist Syntax for Quantifier Raising Topicalization and Focus Movement: A Search and Float Approach for Internal Merge (Paperback)

This volume examines how the displacement property of language is characterized in formal terms under the Minimalist Program and to what extent this proposed characterization of it can explain relevant displacement properties. The birth of the... more

Studies in Natural Language Processing: The Language of Word Meaning (Paperback)

This volume is a collection of original contributions that address the problem of words and their meaning. This represents a still difficult and controversial area within various disciplines: linguistics philosophy and artificial intelligence. Although... more

Studies in Natural Language Processing: Memory-Based Language Processing (Paperback)

Memory-based language processing--a machine learning and problem solving method for language technology--is based on the idea that the direct re-use of examples using analogical reasoning is more suited for solving language processing problems than the... more

Studies in Natural Language Processing: Language Cohesion and Form (Paperback)

As a pioneer in computational linguistics working in the earliest days of language processing by computer Margaret Masterman believed that meaning not grammar was the key to understanding languages and that machines could determine the meaning of... more

Studies in Natural Language Processing: Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology (Hardcover)

Languages in all their forms are the more efficient and natural means for people to communicate. Enormous quantities of information are produced distributed and consumed using languages. Human language technology s main purpose is to allow the use of... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Universals of Language Today (Hardcover)

This book collects the contributions presented at the international congress held at the University of Bologna in January 2007 where leading scholars of different persuasions and interests offered an up-to-date overview of the current status of the... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: The Linearization of Affixes: Evidence from Nuu-Chah-Nulth (Paperback)

This book is a revision of my doctoral dissertation completed at the University of British Columbia in 2005. The members of my doctoral committee ? Henry Davis Rose-Marie Déchaine Martina Wiltschko ? were instrumental in shaping the content and... more

Studies in Natural Language Processing: Relational Models of the Lexicon: Representing Knowledge in Semantic Networks (Paperback)

With the first publication of this book in 1988 the centrality of the lexicon in language research was becoming increasingly apparent and the use of relational models of the lexicon had been the particular focus of research in a variety of disciplines... more

Studies in Natural Language Processing: Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology (Paperback)

Languages in all their forms are the more efficient and natural means for people to communicate. Enormous quantities of information are produced distributed and consumed using languages. Human language technology s main purpose is to allow the use of... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Inner Aspect: The Articulation of VP (Hardcover)

Finishing this book was one of the most difficult things I have ever done. It took far too long from original idea to page proofs and suffered from being relegated to small corners of my life. It was very rarely on the front burner. Since I started... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Phrase Structure and the Lexicon (Paperback)

V ThemelPatients to the lowest specifier of V and Agents to a position outside the minimal VP. Again thematic information is encoded in terms of configurational properties. Addressing the issue of phrase structure in another domain Margaret Speas... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: The Grammar of French Quantification (Hardcover)

This book is the first extensive study on French Quantification in the field of Syntax. It provides a typology of four main quantified noun phrases in French (existential universal negative and wh-) detailing their syntactic semantic and prosodic... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Anaphora in Celtic and Universal Grammar (Hardcover)

This book is based in large part on fieldwork that I conducted in Brittany and Wales in 1983 and 1985. I am thankful for a Fulbright Award for Research in Western Europe and a Faculty Development Award from the University of North Carolina that funded... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Expression and Interpretation of Negation: An OT Typology (Hardcover)

Preface.- 1. Negation in a cross-linguistic perspective.1.0 Introduction and overview.1.1 Negation in logic and language.1.2 Negation in typology and diachronic linguistics.1.3. Negative polarity.1.4 Negative concord: observations and issues.1.5 A... more

Studies in Natural Language Processing: Semantic Processing for Finite Domains (Hardcover)

A primary problem in the area of natural language processing has been semantic analysis. This book looks at the semantics of natural languages in context. It presents an approach to the computational processing of English text that combines current... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Locality Domains in the Spanish Determiner Phrase (Hardcover)

Examining its subject from a generative perspective this highly detailed text deals with the syntax of nominal expressions. It focuses on empirical data taken from the Spanish language though the author goes further to draw conclusions of wider... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Topics in Kwa Syntax (Hardcover)

This book grew out of a concern we have had that very many theoretical and descriptive work on the Kwa languages were not accessible to the general linguistic community. As a result these languages were only referred to in the context of very specific... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Differential Subject Marking (Paperback)

Although (almost) all sentences have subjects not all sentences encode their subjects in the same way. Some languages overtly mark some subjects but not others depending on certain features of the subject argument or the sentence in which the subject... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Issues in the Structure of Arabic Clauses and Words (Hardcover)

This study has a twofold goal. First it investigates the internal structure of words and clauses in Standard Arabic (SA) in the light of recent developments of Government and Binding Theory (GB). Second it argues for a specific theory of typology and... more

Studies in Natural Language Processing: Focus: Linguistic Cognitive and Computational Perspectives (Paperback)

This book presents a collection of papers on the issue of focus in its broadest sense. While commonly considered as being related to phenomena such as presupposition and anaphora focusing is much more widely spread and it is this pervasiveness that the... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Linking: The Geometry of Argument Structure (Paperback)

Linking - how semantic arguments map to the syntax - is one of the challenges for theories of the syntax-semantics interface. In this new approach Janet Randall explores the hypothesis that the positions of syntactic arguments are strictly determined... more

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory: Warlpiri Morpho-Syntax: A Lexicalist Approach (Hardcover)

Warlpiri is a Pama-Nyungan language (Ngarrka group) spo ken by over 3 000 people in Central Australia. Neighbour ing languages (all Pama-Nyungan) include its closest relatives Warlmanpa and Ngardily to the north-east and west respec tively Warumungu... more

Studies in Natural Language Processing: Computational Linguistics and Formal Semantics (Hardcover)

This collection takes the exciting step of examining natural language phenomena from the perspectives of both computational linguistics and formal semantics. Computational linguistics has until now been primarily concerned with the construction of... more

Central Asian Studies: Kazakhstan - Ethnicity Language and Power (Paperback)

Kazakhstan is emerging as the most dynamic economic and political actor in Central Asia. It is the second largest country of the former Soviet Union after the Russian Federation and has rich natural resources particularly oil which is being exploited... more

Model of Access to Natural Language Sources in Electronic Government (Paperback)

For the actual existence of e-government it is necessary and crucial to provide public information and documentation and making its access simple to citizens. This book contributes with a study about developing e-government systems that process natural... more

Lectures on the materia medica : containing the natural history of drugs their virtues and doses: also directions for the study of the materia medica; and an appendix on the method of prescribing /

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1770 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