GeoSpatial Semantics

The culmination of forty years of research, The Language of the Inuit maps the geographical distribution and linguistic differences between the Eskaleut and Inuit languages and dialects. Providing det

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2014, held in Anissaras, Crete, Greece France, in May 2014.The 50 revised full papers presented togeth

This book presents a novel approach to database concepts, describing a categorical logic for database schema mapping based on views, within a framework for database integration/exchange and peer-to-pe

Oltra-Massuet develops a cross-linguistic analysis of morphologically complex adjectives, which is based on the study of -ble, one of the most productive affixes. The study is cross-linguistic in two

This volume contains essays that explore explicit and implicit communication through linguistic research. Taking as a framework Paul Grice’s theories on “what is said,” the contributors explore a numb

This book is a reference instrument for use by students and exegetes exploring the shades of meaning often hidden in the language of ancient Greek texts. First, it lists the different possible meaning

This textbook introduces undergraduate students of language and linguistics to the basic ideas, insights, and techniques of contemporary semantic theory. The book starts with everyday observations abo

The internal bootstrapps for establishing the grammatical system of a human language build an essential topic in language acquisition research. The discussion of the last 20 years came up with the Lex

East Asian linguists, some now working or studying outside the region, compare core features of the two languages. Their topics include tag-questions in Mandarin Chinese, focus-driven semantic reflexi

The genitive/accusative opposition in Slavic languages is a decades-old linguistic conundrum. Shedding new light on this perplexing object-case alternation in Russian, this volume analyzes two variant

Krivochen (U. of Potsdam, Germany) presents a newly developed theoretical framework, radical minimalism, that is inscribed within the "linguistics as science" tradition inaugurated by the Port Royal g

Berg (philosophy, U. of Haifa) has assembled material from his essays, articles, and presentations over the past several years into a comprehensive account of his thoughts on direct belief. He discuss

For professionals and researchers in information and knowledge related technologies, Brena (distributed knowledge and multiagent systems, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico) and Guzman-Arenas (computer

The nine essays of this volume offer an important addition to the scholarship, with an overview essay on the region's unparalleled linguistic riches (by George van Driem) followed by studies describin

Classicists from across Europe, and one from the US, explore how Greek historian Thucydides (460-400 BC) occasionally used the present indicative tense, rather than the usual imperfect and aorist, to

This volume features a collection of articles on advanced topics in XML Structures. The authors of eighteen chapters include international graduate students and professors from research universities,

Language Turned on Itself examines what happens when language becomes self-reflexive; when language is used to talk about language. Those who think, talk, and write about language are habitual users o

Structured methodologies are a popular and powerful tool in information systems development. Many different ones exist, each employing a number of models and so a specification must be converted from one form to another during the development process. To solve this problem, Dr Tse proposes in this 1991 book a unifying framework behind popular structured models. He approaches the problem from the viewpoints of algebra and category theory. He not only develops the frameworks but also illustrates their practical and theoretical usefulness. Thus this book will provide insight for software engineers into how methodologies can be formalised and will open up a range of applications and problems for theoretical computer scientists.

This work represents the maturation of the last 50 years of research on applying models of human organizations to inform an understanding of artificial organizations. International contributors in com

Professor Merrie Bergmann presents an accessible introduction to the subject of many-valued and fuzzy logic designed for use on undergraduate and graduate courses in non-classical logic. Bergmann discusses the philosophical issues that give rise to fuzzy logic - problems arising from vague language - and returns to those issues as logical systems are presented. For historical and pedagogical reasons, three-valued logical systems are presented as useful intermediate systems for studying the principles and theory behind fuzzy logic. The major fuzzy logical systems - Lukasiewicz, Gödel, and product logics - are then presented as generalisations of three-valued systems that successfully address the problems of vagueness. A clear presentation of technical concepts, this book includes exercises throughout the text that pose straightforward problems, that ask students to continue proofs begun in the text, and that engage students in the comparison of logical systems.

Professor Merrie Bergmann presents an accessible introduction to the subject of many-valued and fuzzy logic designed for use on undergraduate and graduate courses in non-classical logic. Bergmann discusses the philosophical issues that give rise to fuzzy logic - problems arising from vague language - and returns to those issues as logical systems are presented. For historical and pedagogical reasons, three-valued logical systems are presented as useful intermediate systems for studying the principles and theory behind fuzzy logic. The major fuzzy logical systems - Lukasiewicz, Gödel, and product logics - are then presented as generalisations of three-valued systems that successfully address the problems of vagueness. A clear presentation of technical concepts, this book includes exercises throughout the text that pose straightforward problems, that ask students to continue proofs begun in the text, and that engage students in the comparison of logical systems.

The verb is, in any language, the motor of all communication: no verb, no action. In Greek, verb forms change not only with person, number, tense, and voice, but in four possible moods as well. Availa

Linguists have recently argued that despite its apparent complexity, human language can be reduced to a small inventory of core cognitive competencies, Noam Chomsky's Minimalist Program being the most

This is the third volume in a series intended by Lytras (U. of Patras, Greece) and Naeve (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) to provide the state-of-the-art in knowledge and learning management ac

In this pioneering book Katarzyna Jaszczolt lays down the foundations of an original theory of meaning in discourse, reveals the cognitive foundations of discourse interpretation, and puts forward a n

Wright (geography and oceanography, Oregon State University) and Scholz (Knowledge Systems for Ecotrust) look at how the marine geographic information system (GIS) can contribute to ocean and shore co

How have national identities changed, developed and reacted in the wake of transition from communism to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe? Central and Eastern Europe After Transition defines and

The importance of discourse markers (words like "so," "however," and "well") lies in the theoretical questions they raise about the nature of discourse and the relationship between linguistic meaning

Volume 2 sets forth typologies according to which concepts are structured and the processes by which they are structured.

In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizesconceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptualdomains: space and tim

Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) was probably the most influential American philosopher of the twentieth century. In Trading Ontology for Ideology Lieven Decock offers an insightful analysis of the

Speaking as one of the founders of American Continental philosophy, Calvin O. Schrag offers an exceptionally clear, balanced, and informative discussion of a complex questions vexing postmodern curren