LINGUIST List 4.433

Fri 04 Jun 1993

Books: Syntax, Semantics, Discourse, Neurocognition

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    Ankersmit, F.R.; Mooij, J.J.A.; Un of Groningen; Knowledge and Language: Volume 3 Metaphor and Knowledge: HB Set 0-7923-1888-9; Kluwer Academic Publishers, Email vanderLindenwkap.nl This volume presents eleven essays on the role of metaphor in philosophy, poetry, semiotics, art, literary criticism, economics, medical science and in political theory. Through the use of metaphor, the contributors provide a unique and exciting picture of these disciplines.

    Aoun, Joseph and Yen-hui Audrey Li (University of Southern California); Syntax of Scope; pb: 0-262--51068-55; 248 pp.; $18.95; cl: 0-262-01133-6; $37.50. The MIT Press The authors develop two principles that, they argue, must be part of any account of the interaction of quantifiers and wh-operators in all languages. A Linguistic Inquiry Monograph. Phone:(800) 356-0343/(617) 625-8569

    Asher, Nicholas; Un. of Texas; Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse; 468 pp.; HB 0-7923-2242-8; Kluwer Academic Publishers, Email vanderLindenwkap.nl This book presents a novel framework and analysis of the ways we refer to abstract objects in natural language discourse. For semanticists, philosophers of language, computer scientists interested in natural language applications, philosophical logicians, graduate students in linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

    de Boysson-Bardies, Benedicte; EHESS/CNRS; Developmental Neurocognition: Speech and Face Processing in the First Year of Life; 516 pp.; HB 0-7923-2188-X; Kluwer Academic, Email vanderLindenwkap.nl These are the proceedings of the NATO ARW on Changes in Speech Processing in Infancy, held in France 1992. It was one of the first interdisciplinary meetings to focus on early developmental neurocognition. The contributions cover the latest research on these topics and include some exciting new conceptual advances.

    Fehri, Abdelkader Fassi; Mohamed V Un.; Issues in the Structure of Arabic Clauses and Words; 312 pp.; HB 0-7923-2082-4; Kluwer Academic Publishers, Email vanderLindenwkap.nl The goals of this study are twofold. First, it investigates the internal structure of words and clauses in Standard Arabic (SA), in the light of recent developments of Government and Binding Theory (GB). Second, it argues for a specific theory of typological variation. For linguists and students of general, Semitic, and Arabic linguistics.

    Pustejovsky, James; Brandeis Un; Semantics and the Lexicon; 416 pp.; HB 0-7923-1963-X; Kluwer Academic, Email vanderLindenwkap.nl This book integrates the research being carried out in the field of lexical semantics in linguistics with the work on knowledge representation and lexicon design in computational linguistics. It provides a stimulating and unique discussion between the computational perspective of lexical meaning and the concerns of the linguist for the semantic description of lexical items in the context of syntactic descriptions.