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  • How to Use a Medical Library

    • 6th Edition
    • Leslie T Morton
    • English

  • Personality and Adaptation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • English

  • Discourse and Syntax

    Syntax and Semantics
    • 1st Edition
    • Talmy Givón
    • English
    Syntax and Semantics, Volume 12: Discourse and Syntax provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of the study of the syntax of isolated sentences. This book discusses the relationship between the discourse notion topic and the syntactic notion subject. Organized into five parts encompassing 20 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the discourse-function definition of so-called movement transformations. This text then presents the argument against the existence of an independent structural level called syntax as far as it can go, suggesting that all syntactic behavior within a given range of data can be predicted from functional considerations. Other chapters consider syntax as a mode of the automatic processing of speech. This book discusses as well the integration of the speaker's goals with communicative strategies in the structure and flow of personal narratives. The final chapter deals with discourse-pragmatic governance of so-called syntactic phenomena. This book is a valuable resource for linguists.

  • Sex-Related Differences in Cognitive Functioning

    Developmental Issues
    • 1st Edition
    • Michele Andrisin Wittig + 1 more
    • English

  • Presupposition

    Syntax and Semantics
    • 1st Edition
    • Choon-Kyu Oh + 1 more
    • English
    Syntax and Semantics, Volume 11: Presupposition is a collection of papers presented at a conference held at the University of Kansas in April, 1977. The book contains 16 papers dealing with presupposition, contributed by linguists, philosophers, mathematicians, and computer scientists. The first paper proposes formal criteria for distinguishing among various distinct phenomena indiscriminately called "presupposition" in recent literature. The paper also provides excellent and authoritative background information. A set of papers attempts to differentiate diverse phenomena lumped together under the cover term "presupposition" and to supply some sort of strategy for justifying the classification of each of these phenomena. The text closes with a paper that elucidates context and contextual domain. The parallel he drawn between the two is especially fruitful in that it is able to resolve the problem of discourse reference on independently justified grounds. Linguists and language experts will find the book very interesting.

  • Residential Consumption, Economic Opportunity, and Race

    • 1st Edition
    • Franklin D. Wilson
    • H. H. Winsborough
    • English

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 12
    • English

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 11
    • English

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 8
    • English

  • The Bilingual Brain

    Neuropsychological and Neurolinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism
    • 1st Edition
    • Martin L. Albert + 1 more
    • English

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 12
    • English

  • Altruism, Sympathy, and Helping

    Psychological and Sociological Principles
    • 1st Edition
    • Lauren Wispé
    • English

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 11
    • English

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 10
    • English

  • Statistical Methods for Social Scientists

    • 1st Edition
    • Eric A. Hanushek + 1 more
    • Peter H. Rossi
    • English
    The aspects of this text which we believe are novel, at least in degree, include: an effort to motivate different sections with practical examples and an empirical orientation; an effort to intersperse several easily motivated examples throughout the book and to maintain some continuity in these examples; and the extensive use of Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrate particular aspects of the problems and estimators being considered. In terms of material being presented, the unique aspects include the first chapter which attempts to address the use of empirical methods in the social sciences, the seventh chapter which considers models with discrete dependent variables and unobserved variables. Clearly these last two topics in particular are quite advanced--more advanced than material that is currently available on the subject. These last two topics are also currently experiencing rapid development and are not adequately described in most other texts.

  • Estimator's General Construction Manhour Manual

    • 2nd Edition
    • John S. Page
    • English
    This manual provides the reader with an accurate and convenient method for estimatig direct labor for general contrsuction work for any given system, plant, or location. Though this book, the reader has a reliable process of obtaining and streamlining an efficent model of operation.

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 11
    • English

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 7
    • English

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 10
    • English

  • The Enzymes

    • 3rd Edition
    • Volume 13
    • English

  • Advances in Food Research

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 22
    • English

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 6
    • English

  • Basic Spanish for Elementary Teachers

    • 1st Edition
    • M. R. Seymann
    • English
    A manual to provide elementary teachers of Spanish-speaking students with a knowledge of the Spanish language so that they may be able to function better in the classroom

  • The Enzymes

    • 3rd Edition
    • Volume 12
    • English

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 9
    • English

  • Protein Crystallography

    • 1st Edition
    • T. L. Blundell + 1 more
    • English

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 9
    • English

  • Japanese Generative Grammar

    Syntax and Semantics
    • 1st Edition
    • Masayoshi Shibatani
    • English
    Syntax and Semantics, Volume 5: Japanese Generative Grammar focuses on the systematic application of the theory of generative grammar to the Japanese language. The phenomenon of reflexivization and its relationship to grammatical constructions, and how various grammatical constructions are systematically related to each other, are examined. The theoretical aspects of various grammatical structures of the Japanese language are also discussed. Comprised of 12 chapters, this volume begins with an introduction to the concept of subject in grammar, followed by an analysis of subject raising as a syntactic device in Japanese and other subject–object–verb (SOV) languages. Subsequent chapters explore the syntax and semantics of Japanese reflexivization, passivization, and causativization, along with relativization, complementation, and negation. Tense, aspect, and modality are also considered, along with the semantics of nominal compounds. The book concludes with an assessment of honorification as a salient feature of the Japanese language and the grammatical system of honorifics. This monograph will be of interest to grammarians and linguists.

  • Notes from the Linguistic Underground

    Syntax and Semantics
    • 1st Edition
    • James D. McCawley
    • English
    Syntax and Semantics, Volume 7: Notes from the Linguistic Underground is a collection of articles that were written in the 1960s, which has never before appeared in a regular, English language publication. The papers contained in this compendium provide the history and information on the development of transformational grammar and generative semantics. The book presents articles that discuss topics on reflexivization, transformations, past tense replacement and the modal system, and pro-sentential forms and their implications for English sentence structure. Papers that tackle syntactic orientation, some constraints on pronominalization, discourse referents, and the verb-object agreement rule and the wh-movement rule in Hungarian are likewise included. Linguists and linguistic historians will find the book invaluable.

  • Perspectives on the Coordination of Movement

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 61
    • S.A. Wallace
    • English
    Is there a `right way' to study coordination? What experimental paradigms are appropriate? Are there laws and principles that the biological system uses to coordinate movement? Do all biological systems - human and otherwise - share these same principles? Is coordination inherited or acquired? Is it a central nervous system, muscular, or mechanical problem? Indeed, what is coordination and how can it be quantified?This volume attempts to help to answer some of these questions by bringing together a collection of conceptual approaches to and empirical investigations of the coordination of movement. The authors of the chapters are well known and respected researchers from a variety of disciplines.New theoretical developments such as in synergetics and dynamic pattern formation are presented together with extensive reviews and new experimental work on infant motor behavior, and the coordination of prehension, multi-limb, gait and speech movement. The volume contains perspectives on the problem of movement coordination relevant to various disciplines such as psychology, biology, engineering and robotics, physical education, physical therapy, kinesiology and physiology and so will be of interest to all students and scientists working in such fields.

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 10
    • English

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 8
    • English

  • The Enzymes

    • 3rd Edition
    • Volume 11
    • English

  • ADVANCES IN CANCER RESEARCH, VOLUME 21

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 21
    • English

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 8
    • English

  • Studies in the Cognitive Basis of Language Development

    • 1st Edition
    • Harry Beilin
    • David S. Palermo
    • English

  • How to Speak and Write

    A Practical Guide for Nurses
    • 1st Edition
    • James Calnan + 1 more
    • English

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 5
    • English

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 9
    • English

  • The Enzymes

    • 3rd Edition
    • Volume 10
    • English

  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 7
    • English

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 8
    • English

  • The Enzymes

    • 3rd Edition
    • Volume 9
    • English

  • Rubber Springs Design

    • 1st Edition
    • E. F. Goebel
    • A. M. Brichta
    • English

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 7
    • English

  • The Enzymes

    • 3rd Edition
    • Volume 8
    • English

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 7
    • English

  • ADVANCES IN CANCER RESEARCH, VOLUME 16

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 16
    • English

  • Progress in Physiological Psychology

    Volume 5
    • 1st Edition
    • Eliot Stellar + 1 more
    • English

  • Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 6
    • English

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