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642 books match the query 'Linguistics' and 65 start with l

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Linguistics and Computation

Edited by Jennifer S. Cole, Georgia M. Green, and Jerry L. Morgan

CSLI, 1995

This volume is a collection covering the diverse areas of psycholinguistics, syntax, computational linguistics and phonology. Abney's paper on Chunks provides an interesting new approach to phrase structure, motivated by psycholinguist data, something that is rarely done. Berwick and Fong provide a history of computational implementations of (Chomskyan) Transformational Grammar. Cole's phonology paper, arguing from Chamorro and English stress that cyclicity is not needed in phonology, is also preceded by a one-and-a-half-page introduction on why this is relevant to computation. Coleman's contribution summarises work on computational phonology and describes the York Talk speech synthesis system. Hirschberg and Sproat's paper describes a system they have written to assign pitch accent to unrestricted text in an RT&T text-to-speech system. This is very much applied natural language processing, but their system represents a more thorough-going attempt at doing this well than has been previously attempted, and this appears to be the first write-up of this work. Johnson and Moss introduce Stratified Feature Grammar, a formal model of language, inspired by Relational Grammar but formalised by using and extending tools developed in the unification grammar community. Finally, Nakazawa extends further Tomita's work so that computer science LR parsing methods can be applied to natural language grammars, here feature-based grammars.
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Linguistics of American Sign Language Text, 3rd Edition

An Introduction

Clayton Valli

Gallaudet University Press, 2001

New 4th Edition completely revised and updated with new DVD now available; ISBN 1-56368-283-4
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Linguistics of American Sign Language

An Introduction, 5th Ed.

Clayton Valli

Gallaudet University Press, 2011

Completely reorganized to reflect the growing intricacy of the study of ASL linguistics, the 5th edition presents 26 units in seven parts. Part One: Introduction presents a revision of Defining Language and an entirely new unit, Defining Linguistics. Part Two: Phonology has been completely updated with new terminology and examples. The third part, Morphology, features units on building new signs, deriving nouns from verbs, compounds, fingerspelling, and numeral incorporation. Part Four: Syntax includes units on basic sentence types, lexical categories, word order, time and aspect, verbs, and the function of space. The fifth part, Semantics, offers updates on the meanings of individual signs and sentences.
 
Part Six: Language in Use showcases an entirely new section on Black ASL in the unit on Variation and Historical Change. The units on bilingualism and language and ASL discourse have been thoroughly revised and updated, and the Language as Art unit has been enhanced with a new section on ASL in film. Two new readings update Part Seven, and all text illustrations have been replaced by video stills from the expanded video content. Also, signs described only with written explanations in past editions now have both photographic samples in the text and full demonstrations in the video.
 
*** You can find the supplemental video content on the Gallaudet University Press YouTube channel. ***

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Linguistics of American Sign Language

An Introduction, 6th Ed.

Julie A. Hochgesang

Gallaudet University Press, 2026

Grounded in the scholarship and reflecting contemporary developments in the field of signed language linguistics, the sixth edition of Linguistics of American Sign Language provides a clear, comprehensive, and fresh introduction to the structure of ASL. Focusing on language in everyday contexts, this new edition treats ASL as a dynamic system shaped by the diversity of its communities.

Organized into two parts, Linguistics of American SignLanguage begins by exploring fundamental concepts of language within communities, addressing language features, registers, variation and historical change, multilingualism, ideologies, and discourse. This first section sets the stage for in-depth analysis into core areas of linguistic study: syntax, phonology, and morphology. New content provides depth, exploring topics such as the representation of signed languages in texts, corpus linguistics, heritage-language signers, and Black ASL. To show how language is used by multilingual and multimodal individuals within their communities, the book pairs discussion with “grounding texts,” videos of ASL within varied authentic settings.

Linguistics of American Sign Language is supported by a companion website that provides access to the grounding texts and supplementary materials, including downloadable resources for hands-on analysis such as annotated videos and readings. Designed for readers with no background in linguistics, each unit opens with guided questions to prompt reflection and concludes with exercises and recommended readings.

Refining the standard for sign language scholarship, the sixth edition of Linguistics of American Sign Language guides readers beyond technical analysis to explore ASL as a vibrant system rooted in community, culture, and language.

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Linguistics, Philosophy, and Montague Grammar

Edited by Steven Davis and Marianne Mithun

University of Texas Press, 1979

This volume presents significant developments in the field of Montague Grammar and outlines its past and future contributions to philosophy and linguistics. The contents are as follows:

Introduction by Steven Davis and Marianne Mithun

Emmon Bach, "Montague Grammar and Classical Transformational Grammar"

Barbara H. Partee, "Constraining Transformational Montague Grammar: A Framework and a Fragment"

James D. McCawley, "Helpful Hints to the Ordinary Working Montague Grammarian"

Terence Parsons, "Type Theory and Ordinary Language"

David R. Dowty, "Dative 'Movement' and Thomason's Extensions of Montague Grammar"

Muffy E. A. Siegel, "Measure Adjectives in Montague Grammar"

Michael Bennett, "Mass Nouns and Mass Terms in Montague Grammar"

Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof, "Infinitives and Context in Montague Grammar"

James Waldo, "A PTQ Semantics for Sortal Incorrectness"

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Linking Literacies

Perspectives on L2 Reading-Writing Connections

Diane Belcher and Alan Hirvela, Editors

University of Michigan Press, 2001

Linking Literacies provides the most up to date theoretical overview of the connection between reading and writing in second language acquisition. Belcher and Hirvela have brought together the definitive collection of developments in reading-writing relations research and pedagogy. Papers are organized into these parts:
Ground Practice: Theory, Research, and History
In the Classroom: Teaching Reading as Writing and Writing as Reading
(E)Merging Literacies and the Challenge of Textual Ownership
Technology-Assisted Reading and Writing.
In addition to examining the ways in which L1 influences have affected the development of L2 reading-writing theory and pedagogy, Linking Literacies looks at how L2 reading-writing scholarship has created an identity separate of an L1 framework. Linking Literacies examines a broad range of questions and concerns within the structure of L2 reading-writing connections and L2 academic literacy through discussions of theory, research, and

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Linking by Types in the Hierarchical Lexicon

Anthony R. Davis

CSLI, 2001

Actions are described by verbs whose subjects, objects, and other complements refer to various participants in those actions. What linguistic principles determine which participants are referred to by each component of a verb?

Many previous approaches to this problem have employed a set of thematic roles, such as agent and patient, to classify varieties of participants. The alternative developed here fits within the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar while utilizing typed feature structures, certain basic features of verb meaning, a hierarchical classification of verb meanings, and constraints from more general to more specific word classes. Relying on no special mechanisms or components of grammar, this book is unique in its ability to account for the observed range of verb types in human languages with a simple yet widely applicable set of principles.
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Lives in Two Languages

An Exploration of Identity and Culture

Linda Watkins-Goffman

University of Michigan Press, 2001

Lives in Two Languages explores identity and multiculturalism through readings that aim to help teachers-in-training gain better insight into their students' lives.
Lives in Two Languages focuses on the experience of multicultural authors--like Richard Rodriguez, Amy Tan, Eva Hoffman, Chang-rae Lee, and Julia Alvarez--whose experiences can be related to anyone who has moved from one culture or subculture to another. As such, this text is an excellent comprehensive introduction to the multicultural experience for teachers and educators in all disciplines, as well as of interest to anyone interested in language culture and psychological process of identity.
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Local Constraints vs. Economy

David E. Johnson and Shalom Lappin

CSLI, 1999

The book offers a detailed critique of the economy-of-derivation model of grammar that has emerged within the framework of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. It looks at the conceptual and computational complexity problems as well as the empirical consequences of both global and local economy principles. The book compares the economy-of-derivation model with a local constraint model of grammar that does not invoke conditions on sets of derivations or on possible operations in a derivation. It argues that the pure local constraint model of grammar avoids the complexity problems resulting from economy-of-derivation principles and provides a more satisfactory explanation of the linguistic facts that economy theorists have cited in support of their approach. The local constraint model also allows for a more natural and empirically well-motivated grammatical architecture than the one postulated by the Minimalist Program.
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Logic and Representation

Robert C. Moore

CSLI, 1993

Logic and Representation brings together a collection of essays, written over a period of ten years, that apply formal logic and the notion of explicit representation of knowledge to a variety of problems in artificial intelligence, natural language semantics, and the philosophy of mind and language. Particular attention is paid to modeling and reasoning about knowledge and belief, including reasoning about one's own beliefs, and the semantics of sentences about knowledge and belief. Robert C. Moore begins by exploring the role of logic in artificial intelligence, considering logic as an analytical tool., as a basis for reasoning systems, and as a programming language. He then looks at various logical analyses of propositional attitudes, including possible-world models, syntactic models, and models based on Russellian propositions. Next Moore examines autoepistemic logic, a logic for modeling reasoning about one's own beliefs. Rounding out the volume is a section on the semantics of natural language, including a survey of problems in semantic representation; a detailed study of the relations among events, situations, and adverbs; and a presentation of a unification-based approach to semantic interpretation. Robert C. Moore is principal scientist of the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International.
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Logic, Information and Agency

Johan van Benthem

CSLI, 2025

A systematic study of information dynamics that extends beyond what is found in standard logic textbooks.

Everything we do is driven by information, but the dynamic process of acquiring information and adjusting our views based on it has seldom been put at the center place in logic, and there are few textbooks introducing readers to this line of work. The present book introduces the reader to major logical techniques for studying information dynamics and interaction between agents, based on a variety of intuitive scenarios as well as recent research. Readers will learn styles of modeling, as well as the basic features of the new logical systems emanating from this line of work. All the separate strands in the book are brought together in a comprehensive study of information flow and action in games, forming a logic-based complement to standard perspectives in game theory.
 
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Logic, Language and Computation

Edited by Jerry Seligman and Dag Westerståhl

CSLI, 1996

Subject: Linguistics; Logic; Computational Linguistics
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Logic, Language and Computation, Volume 3

Edited by Patrick Blackburn, Nick Braisby, Lawrence Cavedon, and Atsushi Shimoji

CSLI, 2001

With the rise of the internet and the proliferation of technology to gather and organize data, our era has been defined as "the information age." With the prominence of information as a research concept, there has arisen an increasing appreciation of the intertwined nature of fields such as logic, linguistics, and computer science that answer the questions about information and the ways it can be processed. The many research traditions do not agree about the exact nature of information. By bringing together ideas from diverse perspectives, this book presents the emerging consensus about what a conclusive theory of information should be. The book provides an introduction to the topic, work on the underlying ideas, and technical research that pins down the richer notions of information from a mathematical point of view.

The book contains contributions to a general theory of information, while also tackling specific problems from artificial intelligence, formal semantics, cognitive psychology, and the philosophy of mind. There is focus on the dynamics of information flow, and also a consideration of static approaches to information content; both quantitative and qualitative approaches are represented.
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Logic, Language and Philosophy

An Introduction to Standard Logic

Fenrong Liu and Martin Stokhof

CSLI, 2024

A fresh introduction to the field of logic, this book provides a fascinating encounter between linguistics and philosophy utilizing logic.

This book explores the systematic and formal study of reasoning. It introduces the core systems of logic, discusses a portion of its extensions, and illustrates the application of logic in philosophy and linguistics utilizing classical and contemporary sources. In doing so, it provides the students with a rich set of tools along with first-hand experience regarding their applications in the study of rationality and meaning. With lots of exercises, and study and discussion questions, it provides a complete set of materials for courses for a variety of audiences at different levels.
 
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Logical Reasoning with Diagrams and Sentences

Using Hyperproof

Dave Barker-Plummer, Jon Barwise, and John Etchemendy

CSLI, 2016

The Logical Reasoning with Diagrams and Sentences courseware package teaches the principles of analytical reasoning and proof construction using a carefully crafted combination of textbook, desktop, and online materials. This package is sure to be an essential resource in a range of courses incorporating logical reasoning, including formal linguistics, philosophy, mathematics, and computer science.

Unlike traditional formal treatments of reasoning, this package uses both graphical and sentential representations to reflect common situations in everyday reasoning where information is expressed in many forms, such as finding your way to a location using a map and an address. It also teaches students how to construct and check the logical validity of a variety of proofs—of consequence and non-consequence, consistency and inconsistency, and independence—using an intuitive proof system which extends standard proof treatments with sentential, graphical, and heterogeneous inference rules, allowing students to focus on proof content rather than syntactic structure. Building upon the widely used Tarski’s World and Language, Proof and Logic courseware packages, Logical Reasoning with Diagrams and Sentences contains more than three hundred exercises, most of which can be assessed by the Grade Grinder online assessment service; is supported by an extensive website through which students and instructors can access online video lectures by the authors; and allows instructors to create their own exercises and assess their students’ work.

Logical Reasoning with Diagrams and Sentences is an expanded revision of the Hyperproof courseware package.
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