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Demoting the Agent

Author : Benjamin Lyngfelt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027233608
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Demoting the Agent written by Benjamin Lyngfelt and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passives, middles, and other voice phenomena are issues at the core of modern linguistic research. This volume brings together different perspectives on voice different theoretical viewpoints, different languages, and different kinds of voice phenomena. The eleven articles each make a valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion, offering new data, new analyses, and bringing new light to long-standing issues. In combination, they present a multi-faceted and yet coherent picture of the topics at hand.

Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse

Author : Christopher Butler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027230959
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse by : Christopher Butler

Download or read book Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse written by Christopher Butler and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, a tribute to Angela Downing, consists of twenty papers taking a broadly functional perspective on language, with topics ranging from the general (grammar as an evolutionary product, text comprehension, integrative linguistics) to particular aspects of the grammars of languages (Bulgarian, English, Icelandic, Spanish, Swedish). The more specific papers are sequenced according to Halliday s division into ideational, textual and interpersonal aspects of the grammar, and cover a wide range of areas, including aspect, argument structure, noun phrase/nominal group structure and nominalisations, pronominal clitics, theme in relation to writing skills, discourse structures and markers, the role of attention in conversation, the functions of topic, phatic communion, subjectification, formulaic language and modality. A recurrent theme in the volume is the use of corpus materials in order to base functional descriptions on authentic productions. Overall, the volume constitutes a panoramic but nevertheless detailed view of some important current trends in functional linguistics.

Analyzing Syntax

Author : Paul Kroeger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521016544
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Analyzing Syntax written by Paul Kroeger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach is a comprehensive and accessible textbook on syntactic analysis, designed for students of linguistics at advanced undergraduate or graduate level. Working within the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) approach, it provides students with a framework for analyzing and describing grammatical structure, using extensive examples from both European and non-European languages. Topics covered include: tests for constituency, passivization and other relation-changing processes, reflexive pronouns, the control relation, Topic and Focus, relative clauses and Wh-questions, causative constructions, serial verbs, quirky case , and ergativity. As well as building on what linguists have learned about language in general, particular attention is paid to the unique features of individual languages. While its primary focus is on syntactic structure, the book also deals with aspects of meaning, function and word-structure that are directly relevant to syntax. Clearly organised into topics, this textbook is ideal for one-semester courses in syntax and grammatical analysis.

Salience

Author : Christian Chiarcos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110241021
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Salience written by Christian Chiarcos and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume addresses the role of salience in discourse and provides broad coverage of various perspectives on and functions of discourse salience. The range of multidisciplinary approaches adopted in the volume differ with regard to the underlying theoretical proposals and foci of research. The topics range from (i) entity-based salience to (ii) discourse-structural salience of utterances to (iii) extra-linguistic factors of salience in discourse. Accordingly, the volume is organized into three sections. Part I focuses on discourse referents and the choice of referring expressions. The contributions cover issues such as salience and demonstrativity in Russian, discourse salience and grammatical voice in the West Siberian language Eastern Khanty, the joined information of syntactic and semantic prominence, and a computational framework of salience metrics. The contributions to Part II are concerned with linguistic structures at or above the clause level. The salience of discourse segments is addressed with respect to the translation of discourse relations and position of verb arguments in Old High German. Part III extends the scope beyond purely linguistic phenomena and deals with the role of extra-linguistic salience in discourse processing. Visual salience in a situated-dialog context, salience marking by hypertextual links, and extra-linguistic salience derived from a mental representation of the described situation are all discussed here. The notion of salience is of relevance to discourse studies in theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, as well as psycholinguistics.

English Grammar

Author : T. Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902727388X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book English Grammar written by T. Givón and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-07-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and literally, grammar like musical form must make sense. But for the instrument to serve its purpose, it must first exist; the rules must be real, they can be explicitly described and taught. This book is intended for both students and teachers, at college level, for both native and nonnative speakers. With the guidance of a teacher this book will serve as a thorough introduction to the grammar of English. Volume II continues with syntactic and communicative complexity: embedded clauses – verb complements, relative clauses; detransitive voice – passive, anti-passive, impersonal and middle voice, reflexive and reciprocal constructions; focus and topic constructions; nondeclarative speech acts. It closes with interclausal connectivity: conjoined and subordinate clauses, the grammar of discourse coherence, clause chains and thematic paragraphs.

Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

Author : Gita Sukthankar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319716824
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems written by Gita Sukthankar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features a selection of best papers from 13 workshops held at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2017, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in May 2017. The 17 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. They cover specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of autonomous agents and multiagent systems.

English Grammar

Author : Angela Downing
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415287876
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book English Grammar written by Angela Downing and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the linguistic basis for courses and projects on translation, contrastive linguistics, stylistics, reading and discourse studies, this book illustrates grammatical usage through authentic texts from a range of sources, both spoken and written. This new edition has been thoroughly rewritten and redesigned to include many new texts and examples of language in use. Key features include: chapters divided into modules of class-length materials; a wide variety of authentic texts and transcriptions to illustrate points of grammar and to contextualise structure; clear chapter and module summaries enabling efficient class preparation and student revision; exercises and topics for individual study; answer key for analytical exercises; comprehensive index; select biography; suggestions for further reading; and a companion website. This up-to-date descriptive grammar is a complete course for first degree and postgraduate students of English, and is particularly suited for those whose native language is not English.

Case and Grammatical Relations

Author : Greville G. Corbett
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027290180
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Case and Grammatical Relations by : Greville G. Corbett

Download or read book Case and Grammatical Relations written by Greville G. Corbett and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume can be grouped into two broad, overlapping classes: those dealing primarily with case and those dealing primarily with grammatical relations. With regard to case, topics include descriptions of the case systems of two Caucasian languages, the problems of determining how many cases Russian has and whether Hungarian has a case system at all, the issue of case-combining, the retention of the dative in Swedish dialects, and genitive objects in the languages of Europe. With regard to grammatical relations, topics include the order of obliques in OV and VO languages, the effects of the referential hierarchy on the distribution of grammatical relations, the problem of whether the passive requires a subject category, the relation between subjecthood and definiteness, and the issue of how the loss of case and aspectual systems triggers the use of compensatory mechanisms in heritage Russian.

Typology of Verbal Categories

Author : Leonid Kulikov
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110913755
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Typology of Verbal Categories written by Leonid Kulikov and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The typological studies of this volume are oriented towards the areas of interests of the Russian typologist Vladimir P. Nedjalkov, to whom the volume is dedicated. They deal with the typology of verbal categories. The book is divided into three parts: 1. "Ergativity and transitivity", 2. "Voice, causative and valency", 3. "Tense and mood". In all three parts of the volume instances of grammaticalization are pointed out and investigated. The studies concern various languages, e.g. English, French, German, Russian, Hungarian, Dutch, Tariana (a North Arawak language from North West Amazonia), Dumi (a Tibeto-Burman language), and Lak (a Daghestanian language).

Case, Valency and Transitivity

Author : L. I. Kulikov
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027230870
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Case, Valency and Transitivity written by L. I. Kulikov and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three concepts of case, valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of modern linguistics. On the one hand, they are crucially connected with morphological aspects of the clause, including case marking, person agreement and voice. On the other hand, they are related to several semantic issues such as the meaning of case, semantico-syntactic verbal classes, and the semantic correlates of transitivity. The volume unifies papers written within different theoretical frameworks and representing variegated approaches (Optimality Theory, Government and Binding, various versions of the Functional approach, Cross-linguistic and Typological analyses), containing both numerous new findings in individual languages and valuable observations and generalizations related to case, valency and transitivity.

ECAI 2016

Author : G.A. Kaminka
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1614996725
Total Pages : 1860 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book ECAI 2016 written by G.A. Kaminka and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 1860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial Intelligence continues to be one of the most exciting and fast-developing fields of computer science. This book presents the 177 long papers and 123 short papers accepted for ECAI 2016, the latest edition of the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Europe’s premier venue for presenting scientific results in AI. The conference was held in The Hague, the Netherlands, from August 29 to September 2, 2016. ECAI 2016 also incorporated the conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS) 2016, and the Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS). The papers from PAIS are included in this volume; the papers from STAIRS are published in a separate volume in the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA) series. Organized by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) and the Benelux Association for Artificial Intelligence (BNVKI), the ECAI conference provides an opportunity for researchers to present and hear about the very best research in contemporary AI. This proceedings will be of interest to all those seeking an overview of the very latest innovations and developments in this field.

The Cognitive Foundations of Group Attitudes and Social Interaction

Author : Andreas Herzig
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319217321
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book The Cognitive Foundations of Group Attitudes and Social Interaction written by Andreas Herzig and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a widely interdisciplinary approach to investigating important questions surrounding the cognitive foundations of group attitudes and social interaction. The volume tackles issues such as the relationship between individual and group attitudes, the cognitive bases of group identity and group identification and the link between emotions and individual attitudes. This volume delves into the links between individual attitudes (such as beliefs, goals and intentions) and how they are reflected in shared attitudes where common belief, collective acceptance, joint intentions, and group preferences come into play. It pursues answers to the connections between trust and beliefs, goals and intentions and attempts to investigate questions such as: does trust have an affective component and how it may relate to hope and fear? The volume also scrutinizes game theory and questions whether it can satisfactorily explain and model social interaction and if there may be any concepts which are not addressed by the current theory. Contributors are derived from disciplines including philosophy, economics, psychology, logic and computer science. Interdisciplinary in scope and comprehensive detail, this volume integrates a variety of approaches – philosophical, psychological and artificial intelligence – to strategic, normative and emotional aspects of social interaction.

Transitivity and Discourse Continuity in Chamorro Narratives

Author : Ann M. Cooreman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110851016
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Transitivity and Discourse Continuity in Chamorro Narratives written by Ann M. Cooreman and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Computational Models of Argument

Author : F. Toni
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1643683071
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Computational Models of Argument written by F. Toni and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argumentation has traditionally been studied across a number of fields, notably philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics and jurisprudence. The study of computational models of argumentation is a more recent endeavor, bringing together researchers from traditional fields and computer science and engineering within a rich, interdisciplinary matrix. Computational models of argumentation have been identified and used since the 1980s, and more recently an important role for argumentation in leading to principled decisions has emerged in several settings. This book presents the proceedings of COMMA 2022 the 9th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, held in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, during 14 - 16 September 2022. The book contains 27 regular papers and 16 demo papers from a total of 75 submissions, as well as 3 invited talks from Prof Paul Dunne (University of Liverpool), Prof Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt), and Prof Antonis Kakas (University of Cyprus), which reflect the diverse nature of the field. Papers are a mix of theoretical and practical contributions; theoretical contributions include new formal models, the study of formal or computational properties of models, design for implemented systems and experimental research; practical papers include applications to law, machine learning and explainability. Abstract and structured accounts of argumentation are covered, as are relations between different accounts. Many papers focus on the evaluation of arguments or their conclusions given a body of arguments, with a continuation of a recent trend to study gradual or probabilistic notions of evaluation. The book offers an overview of recent and current research and will be of interest to all those working with computational models of argumentation.

Multilingua

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Multilingua written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems

Author : Peter McBurney
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642128041
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems written by Peter McBurney and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems, held in Budapest, Hungary, in May 2009, in association with the 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2009). The 18 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and are organized in four topical sections on practical reasoning and argument about action; persuasion and negotiation; argumentation theory; and applications and emotions.

Passive and Voice

Author : Masayoshi Shibatani
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027228892
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Passive and Voice written by Masayoshi Shibatani and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together 18 original papers dealing with voice-related phenomena.The languages dealt with represent both typological and geographic diversity, ranging from accusative-type languages to ergative-type and Philippine-type languages, and from Australia to Africa and Siberia. The studies presented here open up many possibilities for theorizing and offer data inviting formal treatments, but the most important contribution they make is in terms of the insights they offer for a better understanding of the fundamentals of voice phenomena.