Books published by Centre for the Study of Language & Information

Online learning is transforming how and what teachers teach, and even who - or what - teachers are. This volume shows how a group of online-learning believers built the best high school in the world without laying a single brick: the Stanford Online High School (SOHS).

Contains the unpublished but significant thesis of Hamid Lesan (1951-2006) as well as other original papers on topics addressed in Woods' thesis and life's work that were first presented at the 31st Journees sur les Arithmetiques Faibles meeting held in Samos, Greece, in 2012.

A collection of papers that was inspired by the linguistics career of Ivan A Sag (1949-2013), written to commemorate his many contributions to the field. It tackles a range of grammar-related issues and shares the perspective that the best theories of grammar attempt to account for the full diversity and complexity of language data.

Including papers that were inspired by the linguistics career of Ivan A Sag (1949-2013), this title is written to commemorate his many contributions to the field. It tackles a range of grammar-related issues and shares the perspective that the best theories of grammar attempt to account for the full diversity and complexity of language data.

In Modal Logic for Open Minds, Johan van Benthem provides an up-to-date introduction to the field of modal logic, outlining its major ideas and exploring the numerous ways in which various academic fields have adopted it. Van Benthem begins with the basic theories of modal logic, semantics, bisimulation, and axiomatics, and also covers more advanced topics, such as expressive power and computational complexity. The book then moves to a wide range of applications, including new developments in information flow, intelligent agency, and games. Taken together, the chapters show modal logic at the crossroads of philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, computer science, and economics. Most of the chapters are followed by exercises, making this volume ideal for undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy, computer science, symbolic systems, cognitive science, and linguistics.

With this textbook, Yehuda N. Falk provides an introduction to the theory of Lexical-Functional Grammar, aimed at both students and professionals who are familiar with other generative theories. Falk examines Lexical-Functional Grammar's relation to more conventional theories.

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart in the latter. In this book, the papers are from the twenty-first Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at Seoul National University in October 2011.

As one of the world's most eminent living philosophers, John Perry has covered a remarkable breadth of subjects in his published work. Looking at the way in which he deals with issues of self, communication, and reality, this title is organized in seven chapters that highlight different aspects of his work on the intersection of these subjects.

The philosopher Patrick Suppes has developed a unique and influential approach to studying the foundations of science - he combines an understanding of the main principles of scientific theories in axiomatic terms and formal models with a hands-on approach. This book searches for a common thread in Suppes' multifaceted work.

The annual Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, of both languages. This title includes essays on the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, discourse analysis, prosody, and psycholinguistics of these languages from the 2010 conference at Oxford.

The author's seminal publications have earned him a loyal following among scholars and computer scientists. In this volume, he explains and comments on the changes he has made to his work over the years in response to new technologies and the evolving understanding of key concepts in computer science.

Representational systems provide their owners with useful information about their environment and are shaped by the special informational needs of the organism with respect to its environment. This compilation of philosophical and scientific research comprises a survey of neuroscientific research on representational systems in animals and humans.

Grammatical Framework is a programming language designed for writing grammars that has the capability of addressing several languages in parallel. This title demonstrates how to write grammars in Grammatical Framework and use them in applications such as tourist phrase-books, spoken dialogue systems, and natural language interfaces.

In 1894 John Dewey established his experimental laboratory school at the University of Chicago, with a focus on teaching each student according to their individual differences. This book examines various studies of computer-based and online instruction, with special attention paid to gifted students in mathematics, science, and engineering.

A French translation of seventeen papers by Donald E Knuth on algorithms both in the field of analysis of algorithms and in the design of new algorithms.

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart in the latter. This title includes papers that are from the nineteenth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart in the latter. This title includes papers that are from the nineteenth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Features the papers that cover a range of topics in Japanese/Korean linguistics, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, discourse analysis, prosody, and psycholinguistics.

Features the papers that cover a range of topics in Japanese/Korean linguistics, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, discourse analysis, prosody, and psycholinguistics.

Consists of selected papers from the seventh meeting of the Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference, held at the University of Alberta in October 2004. The papers fall into five main categories, reflecting the cognitive and functional orientation of the conference.

Dynamic Syntax is a formal model of utterance description that attempts to articulate and substantiate the claim that human linguistic knowledge is essentially the ability to process language in context. This title illustrate this form of syntactic analysis and shows how the model can be applied to a range of constructions and languages.

"This volume consists of selected papers from the seventh meeting of the semi-regular Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language (CSDL) Conference held at the University of Alberta in October 2004."

A collection of papers on language processing, usage, and grammar, written to commemorate the career of Thomas Wasow on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. Wasow has been professor of linguistics and philosophy at Stanford University since 1973 and is affiliated with the Symbolic Systems Program.

Investigates the topics of tone, vowel harmony, and metrical structure, with special reference to Kera, a Chadic language spoken in Chad and Cameroon. Drawing on a decade of experience living and working with the Kera, the author looks at the phonetics and phonology to examine how tone interacts with the vowel quality and rhythm of the language.

In Arapesh, virtually every possible noun-final sound is represented in the paradigm of noun class and agreement markers, reflecting an interpenetration of sound structure and grammar that many theories would disallow as wildly unconstrained. This title describes these formal patterns.

The field of weak arithmetics is an application of logical methods to number theory that was developed by mathematicians, philosophers, and theoretical computer scientists. This title offers a general presentation of weak arithmetics.

Discusses two related research areas in the study of linguistics: the integration of form and meaning, and language and the human body.

Discusses two related research areas in the study of linguistics: the integration of form and meaning, and language and the human body.

Presents a study that considers the effects of language and meaning on the brain. This title traces how common nouns, properties, natural kinds, and attractors link with brain dynamics.

Compares six Romance languages - Catalan, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian - and summarizes the last thirty years of scholarship in the fields of morphology, syntax, semantics, and discourse for each language. This book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars of each language.