Books published by Centre for the Study of Language & Information

Documents the singular ability of lexicalist theories of grammar.

A collection of papers which compare and contrast the typologically similar languages of Japan and Korea. The essays have been divided into five subject areas including Conversation and Discourse Analysis, Language Processing, Morphology, Semantics and Grammatical Function, Phonetics, phonology, and Historical Linguistics and Generative Syntax.

This volume weaves together concerns from three different literatures in philosophy.

Australian Aboriginal languages challenge some of the central assumptions of current linguistic theory.

This book presents a theory of concept formation that treats experimental concepts semantically as stabilising structuring of growing sets of data.

This volume of research from both 'cognitive' and 'functional' approaches to linguistics will appeal to a broad audience.

This volume sets out to explore alternatives to a rigid model of lexical projection.

Key issues in current morphology and the interactions of morphology with phonology and syntax are discussed in this volume.

In the CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION PUBLICATION LECTURE NOTES series. The papers presented are representative of the debate on externalism and open up new questions and issues for philosophical investigation, including the connection between externalism, self-knowledge, epistemic warrant and memory.

An examination of clitics both in Italian and in certain southern Italian dialects which shows their different properties within a single language. The author argues against the existence of a special class clitics whose elements exhibit variable behaviour, decomposing and assimilating their properties to those of well established categories.

A text which pursues the recent upsurge of research in the interface of logic, language and computation, with applications to artificial intelligence and machine learning.

This collection serves as a catalyst for new interdisciplinary developments in language, logic and computation.

This book investigates the learnability of various classes of classical categorial grammars.

This volume explores the potential advantages of database applications to linguistics.

This book brings together a collection of papers focusing on the tonal systems of the Bantu languages of sub-Saharan Africa.

An analysis of the structural properties of collections or pluralities, homogeneous objects like water, and the semantics and philosophy of events.

The papers in this book apply mathematical and logical methods to the description of linguistic structures.

A proposal for a new lexical theory of complex predicates.

This book describes several aspects of syntax and semantics of romance languages.

This book describes several aspects of syntax and semantics of romance languages.

This monograph covers a wide range of linguistic aspects of the Gikuyu language.

This volume explores the intersubjective and social dimensions of self-deception.

This volume is a revised version of papers presented at a conference held in spring 1994 at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld, Germany.

This volume is a revised version of papers presented at a conference held in spring 1994 at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld, Germany.

This book provides an up-to-date coverage of recent approaches to some of the most challenging problems underlying knowledge representation and Artificial Intelligence in general.

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, mathematics, and computer science) to a first graduate logic course. It also includes applications for mobile devices, exercises, and a dedicated website.

Contributions of important researchers working in empty names, fiction, and the puzzles of non-existence.

Arabic is an exciting - yet challenging - language for scholars. This book documents the work of researchers in both academia and industry who have taken up the challenge of solving the real-life problems posed by an understudied language. It explores Arabic machine translation systems, and innovations in speech recognition and mention detection.

This is a synthesis of work on the structure, meaning and use of negation and negative expression. It aims to provide a full picture of negation in natural language and thought.