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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.

Presents a sequence of interviews between Dikran Karagueuzian and prolific fiction writer John L'Heureux that investigate the nature of writing fiction and the writer's need to write. This conversation includes a discussion of contemporary fiction, its virtues and vices, and its distinguished practitioners.

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.

Features a number of the key writings of Giovanni Vailati (1863-1909), the Italian mathematician and philosopher renowned for his work in mechanics, geometry, logic, and epistemology. This book includes the selections that focus on Vailati's significant contributions to the field of pragmatism.

Presents the twenty-five papers that examine the interactions between linguistic structure and sound patterns across a diverse set of languages. This title deals with the influence of K P Mohanan's philosophy of inquiry, derived not only from his rich body of work but also from the fresh perspectives and intellectual vitality.

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.

Presents thirty-six papers that encompasses a variety of areas, such as phonetics; phonology; morphology; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; discourse analysis; and the geographical and historical factors that influence the development of languages, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics.

Present a series of papers that investigate the interface of natural language semantics with other modules of grammar - such as morphology, syntax, and pragmatics - and pursue applications of semantic theory in computational linguistics.

Develops a uniform framework of relational semantics to mediate between logical calculi and their semantics through algebra. This volume addresses normal modal logics such as K and S5, and substructural logics, including relevance logics, linear logic, and Lambek calculi.

Since the dawn of the age of computers, researchers are trying tackle the challenge of developing software that can understand ordinary human language. This title contains several essays which shed light on the research in this field.

Includes contributions on language typology, synchronic variation, language change, constituent structure, function identification, subject condition, control, complex predicates, NP internal structure, wh-constructions, syntactic features, and lexical issues. This volume covers more than a dozen spoken languages as well as American Sign Language.

Can new technologies enhance local, national, and global democracy? This book attempts to sample the full range of work on online deliberation, forging fresh connections between academic research, web designers, and practitioners. It is suitable for those working at the crossroads of computer and social science.

Intends to broaden our concept of reasoning and rationality to allow for a more pluralistic and situational view of human thinking as a practical activity. This book argues that the search for strong theories should leave room for the construction of context-sensitive conceptual tools.

Uses statistical methodology to solve one of American history's most notorious questions: the disputed authorship of the "Federalist Papers". This volume applies mathematics, including the once-controversial Bayesian analysis, to the heart of a literary and historical problem by studying frequently used words in the texts.

Cilungu is an underrepresented language spoken in northern Zambia and Tanzania whose future is far from certain, given ongoing urbanization and the ascendancy of other regional languages. This book presents a comprehensive description and analysis of this endangered language. It also includes a discussion of morphology, both nominal and verbal.

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.

Presents the work of contemporary scholars approaching the issues of linguistic meaning and linguistic acts from various perspectives - from the old disciplines of philosophy and rhetoric to the thinking on semantics and pragmatics - to illuminate different aspects of meaning, communication, argumentation, and persuasion.

Plato's "Parmenides" and Aristotle's "Metaphysics" initiated the discussion of the "First Philosophy" in the Western canon. This work deals with this debate by considering statements as the fundamental bearers of truth-values.

Most human thinking is thoroughly informed by context, but theories of reasoning have concentrated on abstract rules and generalities that make no reference to this crucial factor. This work brings together essays from leading cognitive scientists to forge an interdisciplinary understanding of the contextual phenomenon.

What does linguistic diversity tell us about the human mind? From historical perspectives on Indonesian to apparent time change in Smith Island verbs, from unplanned spoken Russian to argument structure in the Pacific Northwest, the essays in this work render a spectrum of linguistic possibility.

Argues that reflective reasoning constitutes practical reasoning. By applying this conception, this work develops philosophical accounts of intention, free will, and the foundation of morals.

Ronald M Kaplan has made foundational contributions to the development of computational linguistic research and linguistic theory, particularly within Lexical-Functional Grammar. This work, a tribute to Kaplan's work, collects computational and theoretical linguistics papers in his research areas.

Explores how aspects of semantics and pragmatics such as compositionality shape the effectiveness of communication, the roles of the speaker and hearer, and the acquisition of meaning. It surveys research in the fields of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

Reexamines the ancient and long-disregarded concept of visual reasoning and reasserts its potential as a formidable tool in our ability to grasp various kinds of geometrical knowledge. A detailed philosophical case study, this text will be useful for scholars in the fields of mathematics and philosophy.