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Directory         1.     Chris Humphrey , Constructive Adpositional Grammars: Gobbo, Binini Message 1: Constructive Adpositional Grammars: Gobbo, Binini Date: 05-Jul-2011 From: Chris Humphrey <chumphreyc-s-p.org> Subject: Constructive Adpositional Grammars: Gobbo, Binini E-mail this message to a friend Title: Constructive Adpositional Grammars Subtitle: Foundations of Constructive Linguistics Published: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing                 http://www.c-s-p.org Author: Federico Gobbo Author: Marco Binini Hardback: ISBN: 9781443830072 Pages: 280 Price: U.K. £ 39.99 Abstract: This book presents a new paradigm of natural language grammar analysis, based on adposition as the key concept, considered a general connection between two morphemes---or group of morphemes. The adpositional paradigm considers the morpheme as the basic unit to represent morphosyntax, taken as a whole, in terms of constructions, while semantics and pragmatics are treated accordingly. All linguistic observations within the book can be described through the methods and tools of Constructive Mathematics, so that the modelling become formally feasible. A full description in category-theoretic terms of the formal model is provided in the Appendix. A lot of examples taken from natural languages belonging to different typological areas are offered throughout the volume, in order to explain and validate the modeling---with a special attention to ergativity. Finally, a first real-world application of the paradigm is given, i.e., conversational analysis of the transcript of therapeutic settings in terms of constructive speech acts. The main goal of this book is to broaden the scope of Linguistics by including Constructive Mathematics in order to deal with known topics such as grammaticalization, children speech, language comparison, dependency and valency from a different perspective. It primarily concerns advanced students researchers in the field of Theoretical and Mathematical Linguistics but the audience can also include scholars interested in applications of Topos Theory in Linguistics. 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