Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
Semantic Structures (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar): Advances in Natural Language Processing
1st Edition
Edited
By David L. Waltz
December 18, 2015
Natural language understanding is central to the goals of artificial intelligence. Any truly intelligent machine must be capable of carrying on a conversation: dialogue, particularly clarification dialogue, is essential if we are to avoid disasters caused by the misunderstanding of the intelligent ...
Studies in Discourse Analysis (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
1st Edition
Edited
By Malcolm Coulthard, Martin Montgomery
December 18, 2015
The book explores ways in which the formal methods of linguistics can cast light on the structure of verbal interaction, and in particular considers how successive utterances cohere together in continuous spoken discourse. Beginning with an earlier model of discourse analysis elaborated to deal ...
The Conceptual Basis of Language (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)
1st Edition
By David McNeill
December 18, 2015
In this volume, the author deals explicitly and literally with the speech-thought relationship. Departing boldly from contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic thinking, the author offers us one of the truly serious efforts since Vygotsky to deal with this question. A unifying theme is the ...
The English Imperative (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics)
1st Edition
By Eirlys Davies
December 18, 2015
In recent work the imperative seems to have attracted much less attention than the interrogative, perhaps because it appears to be a rather simple structure, easily accounted for in a page or two in manuals of English grammar, and probably also because in so many respects it seems to be a rather ...
The Foundations of Linguistic Theory (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar): Selected Writings of Roy Harris
1st Edition
Edited
By Nigel Love
December 18, 2015
For Roy Harris, the fundamental problem about linguistics is that it has been led astray by the fact that we are capable intellectually of ‘decontextualising’ our own verbal behaviour. A whole interlocking system of doctrines about forms, meanings and communication has arisen designed to support ...
The Prefunctional Stage of First Language Acquistion (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics): A Crosslinguistic Study
1st Edition
Edited
By Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli
December 18, 2015
This book provides a theory of first language acquisition in the syntactic framework of the theory of Universal Grammar. It addresses issues related to the earliest stage of development which ends roughly around the child’s second birthday. The theory put forward capitalises on the traditional ...
Theoretical Linguistics and Disordered Language (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin J Ball
December 18, 2015
The rapid increase of interest in disordered speech and language among linguists over the past decade or so has resulted in many books of practical help to speech pathologists in terms of assessment and remediation. Little, however, has appeared to examine the theoretical implications of the ...
Applied Linguistics and Language Learning
1st Edition
By W.A. Bennett
December 09, 2015
Basing his arguments on the developments in theoretical linguistics as well as his own experience in teaching and research, the author proposes a model of learning which could resolve differences which have for centuries divided thinkers in philosophy and linguistics, between extreme and modified ...
The Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries
1st Edition
By Jennifer Coates
December 09, 2015
This book is a report of an investigation into the meanings of the modal auxiliaries in modern British English. The investigation took the form of a large-scale corpus-based project, looking at modal auxiliaries in both written and spoken language, and taking into account stylistic variation. The ...
Categorial Grammars
1st Edition
By Mary McGee Wood
December 07, 2015
In the last few years categorial grammars have been the focus of dramatically expanded interest and activity, both theoretical and computational. This book, the first introduction to categorical grammars, is written as an objective critical assessment. Categorial grammars offer a radical ...
Categorial Morphology
1st Edition
By Jack Hoeksema
December 07, 2015
This book presents an account of certain problems of morphological analysis that occurs within a theoretical framework that derives its inspiration from recent studies of the lexicon in generative grammar. The starting point is the controversy about the proper analysis of synthetic compounds. Are ...
Existential Sentences in English
1st Edition
By Gary L. Milsark
December 07, 2015
In order to bring some minimal amount of order to the chaos that almost inevitably attends the use of the word ‘existential’ in a linguistic investigation, the author reserved the term existential sentence (ES) to designate all and only those English sentences in which there appears an occurrence ...