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The Logic of Metaphor: Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds

The Logic of Metaphor: Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds...

Author: Eric Steinhart
ISBN: 9789048157129
Format: Paperback
$343.20

"Metaphors and Logic Metaphors are among the most vigorous offspring of the creative mind; I'll argue that some...  Read More >>

Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons

Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons

Author: E. Viegas
ISBN: 9789048153473
Format: Paperback
$427.68

Most of the books about computational (lexical) semantic lexicons deal with the depth (or content) aspect of lexicons,...  Read More >>

Philosophy and Logic In Search of the Polish Tradition: Essays in Honour of Jan Woleński on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday

Philosophy and Logic In Search of the Polish Tradition:...

Author: Jaakko Hintikka ,  Tadeusz Czarnecki
ISBN: 9789048164714
Format: Paperback
$369.60

On the occasion of bis sixtieth birthday, we dedicate this volume to Jan Wo­ leriski-s-our teacher, our colleague,...  Read More >>

Denying Existence: The Logic, Epistemology and Pragmatics of Negative Existentials and Fictional Discourse

Denying Existence: The Logic, Epistemology and Pragmatics...

Author: A. Chakrabarti
ISBN: 9789048147885
Format: Paperback
$604.56

Tangled issues regarding singular or seemingly singular existence-denials, empty subject terms and fictional discourse...  Read More >>

Directionality and Logical Form: On the Scope of Focusing Particles and Wh-in-situ

Directionality and Logical Form: On the Scope of Focusing...

Author: Josef Bayer
ISBN: 9789048146239
Format: Paperback
$388.10

The derivation of logical forms is shown to be under the control, not only of the ECP and subjacency, but also...  Read More >>

Aspect in English: A “Common-Sense” View of the Interplay between Verbal and Nominal Referents

Aspect in English: A “Common-Sense” View of the Interplay...

Author: K. Kabakciev
ISBN: 9789048155484
Format: Paperback
$462.00

Special attention is paid to the role nouns and noun phrases play in the explication of aspect in English (and similar...  Read More >>

Logic and Lexicon: The Semantics of the Indefinite

Logic and Lexicon: The Semantics of the Indefinite

Author: Manfred Pinkal ,  Geoffrey Simmons
ISBN: 9789048145294
Format: Paperback
$472.56

The book is an extended edition of a German monograph and is addressed to advanced students and researchers in...  Read More >>

Politeness Across Cultures

Politeness Across Cultures

Author: F. Bargiela-Chiappini ,  D. Kádár
ISBN: 9780230236486
Format: Hardback
$84.99

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

Doing Worlds with Words: Formal Semantics without Formal Metaphysics

Doing Worlds with Words: Formal Semantics without Formal...

Author: J. Peregrin
ISBN: 9789048146185
Format: Paperback
$388.08

Doing Worlds with Words throws light on the problem of meaning as the meeting point of linguistics, logic and philosophy,...  Read More >>

The Language of Propositions and Events: Issues in the Syntax and the Semantics of Nominalization

The Language of Propositions and Events: Issues in the...

Author: Alessandro Zucchi
ISBN: 9789048143108
Format: Paperback
$509.52

the fact that John performs the song These nominals are also perceived by English speakers to be related to the...  Read More >>

Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator:: An Ultimate Presupposition of Twentieth-Century Philosophy

Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator:: An Ultimate...

Author: Jaakko Hintikka
ISBN: 9789048147540
Format: Paperback
$683.76

Collingwood saw one of the main tasks of philosophers and of historians of human thought in uncovering what he called...  Read More >>

Yours Ever: People and Their Letters

Yours Ever: People and Their Letters

Author: Thomas Mallon
ISBN: 9780307477415
Format: Paperback
$35.00

Mallon offers a delightful and wide-ranging chronicle of the art of letter-writing that explores the offhand masterpieces...  Read More >>

The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Amadya

The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Amadya

Author: Jared Greenblatt
ISBN: 9789004182578
Format: Hardback
$821.04

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Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases

Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical...

Author: P. Saint-Dizier
ISBN: 9789048151462
Format: Paperback
$472.56

From a broad theoret­ ical perspective, the notion of predicate is central to research on the syntax­ semantics...  Read More >>

Quantifiers: Logics, Models and Computation: Volume One: Surveys

Quantifiers: Logics, Models and Computation: Volume...

Author: Michal Krynicki ,  M. Mostowski
ISBN: 9789048145393
Format: Paperback
$472.56

Quantifiers: Logics, Models and Computation is the first concentrated effort to give a systematic presentation...  Read More >>

Tense, Attitudes, and Scope

Tense, Attitudes, and Scope

Author: T. Ogihara
ISBN: 9789048146406
Format: Paperback
$469.92

Tense, Attitudes, and Scope is a model-theoretic inquiry into the semantics of tense in natural language. The book...  Read More >>

Pluralities

Pluralities

Author: Roger Schwarzschild
ISBN: 9789048146949
Format: Paperback
$578.16

Pluralities begins with a concise introduction to recent theories of the semantics of plurals. The author argues,...  Read More >>

Fact Proposition Event

Fact Proposition Event

Author: P.L. Peterson
ISBN: 9789048148561
Format: Paperback
$388.10

Vendler not only began to straighten out the distinctions, but pursued more specific and more interesting questions...  Read More >>

The Bedford Guide for College Writers: With Reader, Research Manual, and Handbook

The Bedford Guide for College Writers: With Reader,...

Author: Mr X J Kennedy (Indiana University) ,  Dorothy M Kennedy
ISBN: 9780312601539
Format: Hardback
$249.35

"With its process-oriented rhetoric, provocative thematic reader, up-to-date research manual, and comprehensive...  Read More >>

Language, Truth and Knowledge: Contributions to the Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap

Language, Truth and Knowledge: Contributions to the...

Author: Thomas Bonk
ISBN: 9789048162581
Format: Paperback
$356.40

This collection originated at a conference organized by the Institute Vienna Circle and the University of Vienna...  Read More >>

Semantic Indexicality

Semantic Indexicality

Author: M.J. Cresswell
ISBN: 9789048146642
Format: Paperback
$406.56

Semantic Indexicality shows how a simple syntax can be combined with a propositional language at the level of logical...  Read More >>

A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse: The Intonation of Increments

A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse: The Intonation...

Author: Dr Gerard O'Grady (Cardiff University, Cardiff)
ISBN: 9781441147172
Format: Hardback
$210.00

"Alan Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at ""A Grammar Of Speech"" (1995) due to...  Read More >>

D. H. Lawrence and Narrative Viewpoint

D. H. Lawrence and Narrative Viewpoint

Author: Violeta Sotirova ,  Beatrix Busse
ISBN: 9781441123626
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

A study of D H Lawrence's presentation of narrative viewpoint, resolving the controversies in narratology and Lawrence...  Read More >>

Alfred Tarski and the Vienna Circle: Austro-Polish Connections in Logical Empiricism

Alfred Tarski and the Vienna Circle: Austro-Polish Connections...

Author: Jan Wolenski ,  Eckehart Köhler
ISBN: 9789048151615
Format: Paperback
$443.52

The larger part of Yearbook 6 of the Institute Vienna Circle constitutes the proceedings of a symposium on Alfred...  Read More >>

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