Books from Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
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Vicious Circles: On the Mathematics of Non-Wellfounded Phenomena
By Jon Barwise, Lawrence MossBarwise and Moss have undertaken to prove this assumption false. This volume is concerned with extending the modelling capabilities of set theory to provide a uniform treatment of circular phenomena.
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The Situation in Logic
By Jon BarwiseThe present volume collects some of Barwise's papers written since then, those directly concerned with relations among logic, situation theory, and situation semantics. Several papers appear here for the first time.
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Literature and Cognition
By Jerry R. HobbsThe essays in this book apply these insights to problems in the interpretation of literature.
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Language at Work: Analyzing Communication Breakdown in the Workplace to Inform Systems Design
By Keith Devlin, Duska RosenbergComputers, on the other hand, are neither creative, flexible, nor adaptable. This is in spite of the fact that their ability to process language is based largely on the grammars developed by linguists and computer scientists.
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Mixed Categories in the Hierarchical Lexicon
By Robert P. MaloufThis book presents a novel analysis of this and similar mixed category constructions in languages including Quechua, Tibetan, Arabic, Fijian, Dagaare, and Jacaltec.
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The Language of First-Order Logic, Including the Macintosh Program Tarski's World 4.0
By Jon Barwise, John EtchemendyThe Language of First-Order Logic is a complete introduction to first-order symbolic logic, consisting of a computer program and a text.
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Japanese/Korean Linguistics
By Hajime HojiThe papers in this volume are intended to further collective and collaborative research into both languages.
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Japanese/Korean Linguistics: Volume 7
By Susan Strauss, Shoichi Iwasaki, Hajime HojiThe papers in this volume are intended to further compare and/or contrast research in both languages.
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Logic, Language and Computation
By Lawrence Moss, Maarten de Rijke, Jonathan GinzburgThe papers contained in this volume by some of the most influential computer scientists, linguists, logicians and philosophers of today cover subjects such as channel theory, presupposition and constraints, the modeling of discourse, and ...
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Selected Papers on Computer Science
By Donald E. KnuthThis anthology of essays from the inventor of literate programming is a survey of Donald Knuth's papers on computer science.
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Turing's World 3.0 for Mac: An Introduction to Computability Theory
By Jon Barwise, John EtchemendyThe text and accompanying diskette allow the user to design, debug, and run sophisticated Turing machines in a graphical environment on the Macintosh.
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Theoretical Perspectives on Word Order in South Asian Languages
By Gillian Ramchand, Tracy Holloway King, Miriam ButtThis volume presents a collection of papers on word order variation in the languages of South Asia.
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The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media like Real People and Places
By Clifford Nass, Byron ReevesIn an extraordinary revision of received wisdom, Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass demonstrate convincingly in The Media Equation that interactions with computers, television, and new communication technologies are identical to real social ...
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Words and the Grammar of Context
By Paul KayResearch in linguistic semantics may be roughly divided into two broad traditions.
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Word Order and Constituent Structure in German
By Hans UszkoreitWord Order and Constituent Structure in German
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Tarski's World 4.0 for Macintosh
By Jon Barwise, John EtchemendyThe package is intended as a supplement to any standard logic text, or for use by anyone who wants to learn the language. The disk and manual contain over a hundred exercises from very basic to highly sophisticated.
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The Language of First-Order Logic: Including the IBM-compatible Windows version of Tarski's World 4.0
By Jon Barwise, John EtchemendyTaking advantage of Tarski's World 4.0, the text skilfully balances the semantic conception of logic with methods of proof. The book contains eleven chapters, in four parts.
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Digital Typography
By Donald E. KnuthIn this collection, the second in the series, Knuth explores the relationship between computers and typography. The present volume, in the words of the author, is the legacy of all the work he has done on typography.
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Linguistic Databases
By John A. NerbonneApplications of linguistics have been handicapped. This volume explores the potential advantages of database applications to linguistics.
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The Linguistics of Punctuation
By Geoffrey NunbergThat these rules obey constraints that are structurally analogous to those of lexical grammar leads Nunberg to label the text-grammar an 'application' of the principles of natural language organization to a new domain.