Semantics books

Addresses three central issues in the study of plurality and quantification in natural languages. This collection...  Read More >>

Doris Penka delivers a unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites - as in the expressions...  Read More >>

Consists of selected papers from the seventh meeting of the Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference,...  Read More >>

Offers a comprehensive set of definitions of key terms in discourse analysis, a core area of linguistics and language...  Read More >>

This book provides an in-depth review of machine translation by discussing in detail a particular method, called...  Read More >>

This accessible guide to discourse employs an innovative, inductive approach, with a clear focus on genre that allows...  Read More >>

Developed for college writing courses, this cultural studies reader was compiled by George and Trimbur with an eye...  Read More >>

Key practitioners and researchers explore how people routinely and at particular sites are discursively constructed...  Read More >>

This accessible guide to discourse employs an innovative, inductive approach, with a clear focus on genre that allows...  Read More >>

Contains a selection of research contributions, presented at the 30th Deutscher Romanistentag [German Conference...  Read More >>

A collection of papers that provides complex dual purpose analyses at the interface of semantics and pragmatics....  Read More >>

Der Band entwirft eine Übersicht über das komplexe philologische und philosophisch-ästhetische Forschungsfeld zum...  Read More >>

Using everyday newspaper English, Dr. Demaray brings a fresh new aproach to the deeply meaningful message of Thomas...  Read More >>

"There is much in this book to inspire any writer to seek more in his or her own writing: to pay attention to sounds,...  Read More >>

"Long before he probed the workings of time, human choice, and human frailty in ""Infinite Jest,"" Wallace wrote...  Read More >>

This text explores the relationship between theories of topic-focus structure, principally as developed in the Prague...  Read More >>

Locality in WH Quantification argues that Logical Form, the level that mediates between syntax and semantics, is...  Read More >>

Some of England's most fascinating Renaissance texts have been forgotten by historians, literary critics and theologians...  Read More >>

Like the journal TOPOl, the TOPOl Library is based on the assumption that philosophy is a lively, provocative, delightful...  Read More >>

Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface starts by analyzing the interpretation of interrogative...  Read More >>

Free logic - i.e., logic free of existential presuppositions in general and with respect to singular terms in particular-...  Read More >>

An encyclopaedia of one of the fields of language studies that provides easy access - for scholars with divergent...  Read More >>

This is the first edited collection to examine politeness in a wide range of diverse cultures. Most essays draw...  Read More >>

Compelling Confessions is a collection of essays whose shared purpose is to offer an accessible interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

""Richard Taylor's 'Fatalism' and the semantics of physical modality""--T.p. verso.  Read More >>