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Meaning, Intentions, and Argumentation by Kepa Korta and Joana Garmendia

What is the relationship between words and reality? Which are the best ways to convince or persuade other people? Besides philosophy and grammar, ancient Greeks developed rhetoric to answer these questions. The twentieth-century brought the birth of semantics and pragmatics for a systematic study of linguistic meaning and linguistic acts. Meaning, Intentions, and Argumentation brings together the work of leading contemporary scholars approaching those issues from various perspectives—from the old disciplines of philosophy and rhetoric to the newest thinking on semantics and pragmatics—to illuminate crucial aspects of meaning, communication, argumentation, and persuasion.
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Architectures, Rules, and Preferences: Variations on Themes by Joan W. Bresnan Edited by Annie Zaenen

Architectures, Rules, and Preferences reflects the interests and honors the influence of Joan W. Bresnan's two decades of foundational work on Lexical-Functional Grammar. This comprehensive volume includes contributions by leading linguists on language typology, synchronic variation, language change, constituent structure, function identification, subject condition, control, complex predicates, NP internal structure, wh-constructions, syntactic features, and lexical issues. Featuring an impressive range of empirical and theoretical research, this collection covers more than a dozen spoken languages as well as American Sign Language.
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World Color Survey by Paul Kay, Brent Berlin, Luisa Maffi, William R. Merrifield, and Richard S. Cook

The 1969 publication of Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's Basic Color Terms proved explosive and controversial. Contrary to the then-popular doctrine of random language variation, Berlin and Kay's multilingual study of color nomenclature indicated a cross-cultural and almost universal pattern in the selection of colors that received abstract names in each language. The ensuing debate helped reform the views of anthropologists, linguists, and psychologists alike.

After four decades in print, Basic Color Terms now has a sequel: in this book, Kay, Berlin, Luisa Maffi, William R. Merrifield, and Richard S. Cook authoritatively extend the original survey, studying 110 additional unwritten languages in detail and in situ. The results are presented even more clearly than before, with charts showing the overall palette of color terms within each language as well as the levels of agreement among speakers. The raw data are also available online.
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Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice Edited by Todd Davies and Seeta Peña Gangadharan

Can new technology enhance local, national, and global democracy? Online Deliberation is the first book that attempts to sample the full range of work on online deliberation, forging new connections between academic research, web designers, and practitioners. Since the most exciting innovations in deliberation have occurred outside of traditional institutions, and those involved have often worked in relative isolation from each other, research conducted on this growing field has to this point neglected the full perspective of online participation. This volume, an essential read for those working at the crossroads of computer and social science, illuminates the collaborative world of deliberation by examining diverse clusters of Internet communities.
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Statement and Referent: An Inquiry into the Foundations of our Conceptual Order by David Shwayder

Statement and Referent is a continuation of “First Philosophy” as initiated in Plato's Parmenides and Aristotle's Metaphysics. Shwayder ultimately argues that the “category” of bodies is fundamental within the human scheme of conceptualization in that, without a capacity to refer to bodies, a human subject would be unable to conceptualize referents pertaining to such other “categories” as surfaces, visibilia and natural numbers.
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Generalized Galois Logics: Relational Semantics of Nonclassical Logical Calculi by Katalin Bimbó and J. Michael Dunn

Nonclassical logics play an ever-increasing role in various disciplines from mathematics, informatics and computer science to artificial intelligence, cognitive science, linguistics and philosophy.
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Binary Tense by Henk J. Verkuyl

Despite shortcomings in Reichenbach's model of tense, it has been the standard introduction for most linguists working on English, German, and Dutch since 1947. Binary Tense surpasses that model by reviving ideas that preceded it by almost a century. Instead of the 3×3 matrix used in the standard model, Henk J. Verkuyl presents a 2×2×2 approach that can be applied to a wider variety of languages, including Chinese, Georgian, and Spanish. This binary approach sheds light on the difference between imperfect and imperfective, the matching of tenses in complex sentences, and many other aspects of linguistics.
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Perspectives on Contexts Edited by Paolo Bouquet, Luciano Serafini, and Richmond H. Thomason

Most human thinking is thoroughly informed by context, but until very recently theories of reasoning have concentrated on very abstract and general rules that make no reference to context. For instance, the accounts of reasoning that are presented in logic textbooks and that are studied by logicians provide many insights into mathematical proof, but are difficult to apply to common sense reasoning. The task of formulating workable, useful definitions of context and explanations of its role in reasoning has proved to be remarkably challenging. But a great deal of progress has been made recently in many different disciplines. This book provides a picture of this recent work, by leading authors belonging to all the fields that have contributed to this renaissance in thinking about context.
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Tarski's World: Revised and Expanded by Dave Barker-Plummer, Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy in collaboration with Albert Liu.

Here is an innovative and enjoyable way to introduce students to the language of first-order logic. Tarski's World is intended as a supplement to a standard logic text or for use by anyone who wants to learn symbolic reasoning.

This package contains over one-hundred exercises from very basic to highly sophisticated. For the first time, with this edition, students have access to an Internet-based grading service called the Grade Grinder, which provides students with accurate and timely feedback on their work whenever they need it, day or night. A web-based interface allows instructors to manage assignments and grades for their classes.
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Word Structure in Ngalakgan by Brett Baker

Word Structure in Ngalakgan is the first major theoretical work on the phonology and morphology of an Australian language in 20 years. Ngalakgan is a non-configurational, polysynthetic, and agglutinative language of the Gunwinyguan family. The morphological structures of Ngalakgan require a two-level analysis: ROOT-level and WORD-level. Only the WORD-level shows regular phonologically conditioned alternations. The ROOT-level is entirely frozen. Baker demonstrates that Optimality Theory must take account of differences in the productivity of morphological relations in the input, in order to maintain the simplest analysis. Ngalakgan has a quantity-sensitive stress system which is hitherto undescribed and which contradicts the predictions of current Moraic Theory. Syllables closed by codas which share place with a following onset do not count as heavy even though heterorganic codas do. The same system is found in neighbouring languages. This and other patterns suggest that syllabification in these languages is gesture-, rather than timing-, based.
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Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 17 Edited by Shoishi Iwasaki, Hajime Hoji, Patricia M. Clancy, and Sung-Ock Sohn

The papers in this volume are from the seventeenth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at the University of California, Los Angeles in November of 2007. The articles cover a broad range of topics in Japanese and Korean linguistics, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, discourse analysis, prosody, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, acquisition, and grammaticalization.
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Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 16 Edited by Yukinori Takubo, Tomohide Kinuhata, Szymon Grzelak, and Kayo Nagai

The annual Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for presenting research that will broaden the understanding of these two languages, especially through comparative study. The sixteenth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, held in October of 2006 at Kyoto University, was the first in the history of the conference to be held outside of the United States. The thirty-six papers in this volume encompass a variety of areas, such as phonetics; phonology; morphology; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; discourse analysis; and the geographical and historical factors that influence the development of languages, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics.
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Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 13 Edited by Mutsuko Endo Hudson, Peter Sells, and Sun-Ah Jun

Japanese and Korean are typologically quite similar languages, and the linguistic phenomena of the former often hve counterparts in the latter. These collections from the annual Japanese/Korean linguistics conference include essays on the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, discourse analysis, prosody, and psycholinguistics of both languages. Such comparative studies deepen our understanding of both languages and will be a useful reference to students and scholars in either field.
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Theory and Evidence in Semantics Edited by Erhard W. Hinrichs and John Nerbonne

In Theory and Evidence in Semantics, editors Erhard W. Hinrichs and John Nerbonne present a series of state-of-the-art papers that investigate the interface of natural language semantics with other modules of grammar—such as morphology, syntax, and pragmatics—and pursue applications of semantic theory in computational linguistics. Written by some of the leading scholars in the field, and strongly influenced by the seminal work of David R. Dowty in model-theoretical semantics, the papers provide novel accounts of highly complex sets of semantic phenomena, including anaphora, coordination, ellipsis, interrogatives, and negative and collective predicates, as well as tense and aspect.
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English Syntax: An Introduction by Jong-Bok Kim and Peter Sells.

Focusing on the descriptive facts of English, this textbook provides a systematic introduction to English syntax for students with no prior knowledge of English grammar or syntactic analysis.

English Syntax helps students appreciate the various sentence patterns available in the language, understand insights into the core data of its syntax, develop analytic abilities to explore patterns of English in more depth, and learn precise ways of formalizing syntactic analysis. The text and exercises cover a variety of English data and major constructions such as agreement, raising and control, the auxiliary system, passive, questions, relative clauses, extraposition, and clefts.
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Reasoning, Rationality, and Probability edited by Maria Carla Galavotti, Roberto Scazzieri, and Patrick Suppes.

This book broadens our concept of reasoning and rationality to allow for a more pluralistic and situational view of human thinking as a practical activity. Drawing on contributors across disciplines including philosophy, economics, psychology, statistics, computer science, engineering, and physics, Reasoning, Rationality, and Probability argues that the search for strong theories should leave room for the construction of context-sensitive conceptual tools. Both science and everyday life, the authors argue, are too complex and multifaceted to be forced into ready-made schemata.
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Syntactic Theory, 2nd edition: A Formal Introduction by Ivan A. Sag, Thomas Wasow, and Emily M. Bender.

Relevant Linguistics, 2nd Edition, Revised and Expanded: An Introduction to the Structure and Use of English for Teachers by Paul Justice.