Between Syntax and Semantics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Syntax and Semantics write by C.T. James Huang. This book was released on 2010-04-15. Between Syntax and Semantics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This indispensable volume contains articles that represent the best of Huang's work on the syntax-semantics interface over the last two decades. It includes three general topics: (a) questions, indefinites and quantification, (b) anaphora, (c) lexical structure and the syntax of events.
The Semantics of Syntax
The Semantics of Syntax - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Semantics of Syntax write by Denis Bouchard. This book was released on 1995-12. The Semantics of Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the last thirty years, most linguists and philosophers have assumed that meaning can be represented symbolically and that the mental processing of language involves the manipulation of symbols. Scholars have assembled strong evidence that there must be linguistic representations at several abstract levels—phonological, syntactic, and semantic—and that those representations are related by a describable system of rules. Because meaning is so complex, linguists often posit an equally complex relationship between semantic and other levels of grammar. The Semantics of Syntax is an elegant and powerful analysis of the relationship between syntax and semantics. Noting that meaning is underdetermined by form even in simple cases, Denis Bouchard argues that it is impossible to build knowledge of the world into grammar and still have a describable grammar. He thus proposes simple semantic representations and simple rules to relate linguistic levels. Focusing on a class of French verbs, Bouchard shows how multiple senses can be accounted for by the assumption of a single abstract core meaning along with background information about how objects behave in the world. He demonstrates that this move simplifies the syntax at no cost to the descriptive power of the semantics. In two important final chapters, he examines the consequences of his approach for standard syntactic theories.
Practical Common Lisp
Practical Common Lisp - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Practical Common Lisp write by Peter Seibel. This book was released on 2006-11-01. Practical Common Lisp available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. * Treats LISP as a language for commercial applications, not a language for academic AI concerns. This could be considered to be a secondary text for the Lisp course that most schools teach . This would appeal to students who sat through a LISP course in college without quite getting it – so a "nostalgia" approach, as in "wow-lisp can be practical..." * Discusses the Lisp programming model and environment. Contains an introduction to the language and gives a thorough overview of all of Common Lisp’s main features. * Designed for experienced programmers no matter what languages they may be coming from and written for a modern audience—programmers who are familiar with languages like Java, Python, and Perl. * Includes several examples of working code that actually does something useful like Web programming and database access.
Formal Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages
Formal Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Formal Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages write by Kenneth Slonneger. This book was released on 1995. Formal Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With this book, readers with a basic grounding in discreet mathematics will be able to understand the practical applications of these difficult concepts. The book presents the typically difficult subject of "formal methods" in an informal, easy-to-follow manner. A "laboratory component" is integrated throughout the text.
Studies in Syntax and Semantics
Studies in Syntax and Semantics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studies in Syntax and Semantics write by F. Kiefer. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Studies in Syntax and Semantics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the last decade a profound change has occurred in linguistic science. Not only have old problems been tackled from an entirely new point of view but also quite a few new fields of linguistic research have been opened. The common characteristic of the majority of the theories and methods developed recently is the search for a more adequate description of language. Adequacy does not mean simply that the theory must conform to the facts. It must also meet the general requirements of present-day theories: coherence, clear-cut notions, rigor of presentation. It has also become abundantly clear that linguistic research cannot be content with the registration and classification of linguistic phenomena. In one way or another linguistics must try to explain the deep-seated regularities in language which in general do not appear on the surface in some straightforward way. Therefore, we find the attribute 'deep' very often in contemporary linguistic literature. Linguistic theories seek an explanation for the observed facts in terms of a system of hypotheses about the functioning of language. As research proceeds these will undergo essential changes. Some of them will be waived, others com plemented. The papers of the present volume follow these general principles of linguistic theory though they may differ from each other in the way of presentation considerably. Some of the papers make use of the framework of transformational-generative grammar (e. g. Kuroda; Perlmutter), others approach the pertinent problem from a different angle (e. g. Dupraz and Rouault; Apresyan, Mel'cuk, and Zolkovski).
