A textbook/software package that covers first-order language in a method appropriate for a wide range of courses, from first logic courses for undergraduates (philosophy,... Læs mere
"In this book, renowned philosopher John Perry addresses critiques of his work on the essential indexical"--
"A new collection of John Perry's work celebrating his contributions to the philosophy of language"--
This text offers a probabilistic and rule-based computational model of transcription data. The authors argue that assumptions about the units of spoken language... Læs mere
In recent years, semantical partiality has emerged as an important concept in philosophical logic as well as in the study of natural language semantics. This is a study in spatial model theory, the theory of partially defined models.
This text provides a unified account of the semantic effects of the German applicative ("be-") construction. Using natural data from a variety of sorpora, the authors proposee that... Læs mere
This collection of work in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar focuses on interfaces between different grammatical components; its 15 papers explore interface phenomena such as auxiliary contraction in English, analysis of illocutionary force in HPSG, and negation in Welsh.
This text presents a broad range of logical investigations into language and information processing. Topics covered include: the notion of "reasonable... Læs mere