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Download or read book Genericity written by Alda Mari and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the study of generics. It gathers new work from senior and young researchers and is organized along three main areas of study: the generic and individuals; genericity and time; and the sources of genericity and types of judgment.
Book Synopsis The Generic Book by : Gregory N. Carlson
Download or read book The Generic Book written by Gregory N. Carlson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-08 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an attempt to address the theoretical gap between linguistics and philosophy, a group of semanticists, calling itself the Generic Group, has worked to develop a common view of genericity. Their research has resulted in this book, which consists of a substantive introduction and eleven original articles on important aspects of the interpretation of generic expressions. The introduction provides a clear overview of the issues and synthesizes the major analytical approaches to them. Taken together, the papers that follow reflect the current state of the art in the semantics of generics, and afford insight into various generic phenomena.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics by : Maria Aloni
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics written by Maria Aloni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 1239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formal semantics - the scientific study of meaning in natural language - is one of the most fundamental and long-established areas of linguistics. This Handbook offers a comprehensive, yet compact guide to the field, bringing together research from a wide range of world-leading experts. Chapters include coverage of the historical context and foundation of contemporary formal semantics, a survey of the variety of formal/logical approaches to linguistic meaning and an overview of the major areas of research within current semantic theory, broadly conceived. The Handbook also explores the interfaces between semantics and neighbouring disciplines, including research in cognition and computation. This work will be essential reading for students and researchers working in linguistics, philosophy, psychology and computer science.
Book Synopsis Kinds, Things, and Stuff by : Francis Jeffry Pelletier
Download or read book Kinds, Things, and Stuff written by Francis Jeffry Pelletier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generic statement is a type of generalization that is made by asserting that a "kind" has a certain property. For example we might hear that marshmallows are sweet. Here, we are talking about the "kind" marshmallow and assert that individual instances of this kind have the property of being sweet. Almost all of our common sense knowledge about the everyday world is put in terms of generic statements. What can make these generic sentences be true even when there are exceptions? A mass term is one that does not "divide its reference;" the word water is a mass term; the word dog is a count term. In a certain vicinity, one can count and identity how many dogs there are, but it doesn't make sense to do that for water--there just is water present. The philosophical literature is rife with examples concerning how a thing can be composed of a mass, such as a statue being composed of clay. Both generic statements and mass terms have led philosophers, linguists, semanticists, and logicians to search for theories to accommodate these phenomena and relationships. The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume study the nature and use of generics and mass terms. Noted researchers in the psychology of language use material from the investigation of human performance and child-language learning to broaden the range of options open for formal semanticists in the construction of their theories, and to give credence to some of their earlier postulations--for instance, concerning different types of predications that are available for true generics and for the role of object recognitions in the development of count vs. mass terms. Relevant data also is described by investigating the ways children learn these sorts of linguistic items: children can learn how to sue generic statements correctly at an early age, and children are adept at individuating objects and distinguishing them from the stuff of which they are made also at an early age.
Book Synopsis Genericity in Nonlinear Analysis by : Simeon Reich
Download or read book Genericity in Nonlinear Analysis written by Simeon Reich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an extensive collection of state-of-the-art results and references in nonlinear functional analysis demonstrating how the generic approach proves to be very useful in solving many interesting and important problems. Nonlinear analysis plays an ever-increasing role in theoretical and applied mathematics, as well as in many other areas of science such as engineering, statistics, computer science, economics, finance, and medicine. The text may be used as supplementary material for graduate courses in nonlinear functional analysis, optimization theory and approximation theory, and is a treasure trove for instructors, researchers, and practitioners in mathematics and in the mathematical sciences. Each chapter is self-contained; proofs are solid and carefully communicated. Genericity in Nonlinear Analysis is the first book to systematically present the generic approach to nonlinear analysis. Topics presented include convergence analysis of powers and infinite products via the Baire Category Theorem, fixed point theory of both single- and set-valued mappings, best approximation problems, discrete and continuous descent methods for minimization in a general Banach space, and the structure of minimal energy configurations with rational numbers in the Aubry–Mather theory.
Book Synopsis Between Logic and the World by : Bernhard Nickel
Download or read book Between Logic and the World written by Bernhard Nickel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our everyday thought and talk, we put things into categories in order to generalize about them: 'Lions have manes', 'Ravens are black'. Bernhard Nickel presents a theory of generic sentences and the modes of thought they express, integrating compositional semantics with metaphysics to solve the problems of what they mean and how they work.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics by : Chris Cummins
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics written by Chris Cummins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics. In the past 20 years, experimental data has become a major source of evidence for building theories of language meaning and use, encompassing a wide range of topics and methods. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters in this volume offer an up-to-date account of research in the field spanning 31 different topics, including scalar implicatures, presuppositions, counterfactuals, quantification, metaphor, prosody, and politeness, as well as exploring how and why a particular experimental method is suitable for addressing a given theoretical debate. The volume's forward-looking approach also seeks to actively identify questions and methods that could be fruitfully combined in future experimental research. Written in a clear and accessible style, this handbook will appeal to students and scholars from advanced undergraduate level upwards in a range of fields, including semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
Book Synopsis A Cognitive Approach to Genericity in Norwegian by : Anna Kurek-Przybilski
Download or read book A Cognitive Approach to Genericity in Norwegian written by Anna Kurek-Przybilski and published by Jagiellonian University Press. This book was released on 2022-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one speak about kinds in Norwegian? Which noun form should one use to say that dogs bark and cows are mammals? And is it always necessary to use a plural noun form to express genericity? The study presented in this book shows a cognitive approach to genericity in Norwegian. The study material includes three data sets--two surveys and a specialised corpus of generic texts. Both the surveys and the corpus were analysed in two ways--with the use of chosen cognitive models and with a number of statistical tests. Applying both qualitative and quantitive methods has allowed to conduct a comprehensive study on genericity in Norwegian.
Book Synopsis Computability, Enumerability, Unsolvability by : S. B. Cooper
Download or read book Computability, Enumerability, Unsolvability written by S. B. Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-11 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental ideas concerning computation and recursion naturally find their place at the interface between logic and theoretical computer science. The contributions in this book, by leaders in the field, provide a picture of current ideas and methods in the ongoing investigations into the pure mathematical foundations of computability theory. The topics range over computable functions, enumerable sets, degree structures, complexity, subrecursiveness, domains and inductive inference. A number of the articles contain introductory and background material which it is hoped will make this volume an invaluable resource.
Download or read book Genericity written by Fabio Del Prete and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an up-to-date introduction to the study of generics this volume gathers new work from senior and young researchers. It is organised along three main areas of study: the generic and individuals; genericity and time; and the sources of genericity and types of judgment.
Book Synopsis Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar by : Klaus-Uwe Panther
Download or read book Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar written by Klaus-Uwe Panther and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: with the advent of Cognitive Linguistics, metonymy and metaphor are now recognized as being not only ornamental rhetorical tropes but fundamental figures of thought that shape, to a considerable extent, the conceptual structure of languages. The present volume goes even beyond this insight to propose that grammar itself is metonymical in nature (Langacker) and that conceptual metonymy and metaphor leave their imprints on lexicogrammatical structure.
Book Synopsis Genericity In Polynomial Optimization by : Tien Son Pham
Download or read book Genericity In Polynomial Optimization written by Tien Son Pham and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In full generality, minimizing a polynomial function over a closed semi-algebraic set requires complex mathematical equations. This book explains recent developments from singularity theory and semi-algebraic geometry for studying polynomial optimization problems. Classes of generic problems are defined in a simple and elegant manner by using only the two basic (and relatively simple) notions of Newton polyhedron and non-degeneracy conditions associated with a given polynomial optimization problem. These conditions are well known in singularity theory, however, they are rarely considered within the optimization community.Explanations focus on critical points and tangencies of polynomial optimization, Hölderian error bounds for polynomial systems, Frank-Wolfe-type theorem for polynomial programs and well-posedness in polynomial optimization. It then goes on to look at optimization for the different types of polynomials. Through this text graduate students, PhD students and researchers of mathematics will be provided with the knowledge necessary to use semi-algebraic geometry in optimization.
Book Synopsis Theory of Regular Economies by : Ryō Nagata
Download or read book Theory of Regular Economies written by Ryō Nagata and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive treatment of the theory of regular economies, which is one of the most advanced topics in modern general equilibrium theory, emphasizing the basic ideas, the tools and the important applications. Although many notions and tools of differential topology are required to understand the theory, the author chooses a minimum of them and heuristically arranges them; that is, instead of lumping together all the necessary mathematics, the author puts at the beginning of each chapter the minimum mathematics required for the economic analysis of the chapter, so that the reader will not only save much effort on the mathematics but also directly understand how successfully the mathematics is used for the economic issues. Contents: Foundations of Regular Economies: What Is a Regular Economy?; Regular Economies and Genericity; Formalization of Regular Economies; The Number of Equilibria in Regular Economies; Stability of Equilibria in Regular Economies; Transversality and Regular Economies: Space of Utility Functions; Transversality and Regular Economies; Transversality Theorems and Regular Economies; The Number of Extended Equilibria in Regular Economies; Developments of Regular Economies: Production Economy with Linear Activities; Incomplete Markets I; Incomplete Markets II. Readership: Upper level undergraduates, graduate students and researchers involved with the application of mathematics to economic analysis.
Download or read book The Generic Book written by Louis Shores and published by Norman, Okla. : Library-College Associates. This book was released on 1977 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reference written by Barbara Abbott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the most important problems of reference and considers their solution. It presupposes no technical knowledge, presents analyses from first principles, illustrates every stage with examples, and is written with verve and clarity. This is the ideal introduction to reference for students of linguistics and philosophy of language.
Book Synopsis Transparent Logics. Small Differences with Huge Consequences by : Miloš Kosterec
Download or read book Transparent Logics. Small Differences with Huge Consequences written by Miloš Kosterec and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents Transparent Intensional Logic in several of its latest realisations in such a way that it makes a case for the system and demonstrates how the theory can be applied to a wide range of cases. The work strikes a good balance between the philosophical-conceptual and the logical-formal. Transparent Logics prioritises depth over breadth and focuses on advanced formal semantics and philosophical logic, going beyond a mere introduction to the subject, but delving into the details instead.
Book Synopsis Formal Foundations of Reuse and Domain Engineering by : Stephen H. Edwards
Download or read book Formal Foundations of Reuse and Domain Engineering written by Stephen H. Edwards and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Software Reuse, ICSR 2009, held in Falls Church, VA, USA, in September 2009. The 28 full papers were caryfully selected from numerous submissions. 2009 was the year that ICSR went back to its roots. The theme was Formal Foundations of Reuse and Domain Engineering. The theory and formal foundations that underlie current reuse and domain engineering practice were explored and current advancements to get an idea of where the field of reuse was headed, were looked at. Many of the papers in these proceedings reflect that theme, e.g. component reuse and verification, feature modeling, generators and model-driven development, industry experience, product lines, reuse and patterns, service-oriented environments.
