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Glocal English: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World
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Glocal English: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World

Glocal English compares the usage patterns and stylistic conventions of the world's two dominant native varieties of English (British and American English) with Nigerian English, which ranks as the English world's fastest-growing non-native variety courtesy of the unrelenting ubiquity of the Nigerian (English-language) movie industry in Africa and the Black Atlantic Diaspora.
 
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Linguistic Expressions and Semantic Processing: A Practical Approach
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Linguistic Expressions and Semantic Processing: A Practical Approach

The book demonstrates that the methods allow wide coverage without compromising the quality of semantic analysis. Access to unrestricted, robust and accurate semantic analysis is widely regarded as an essential component for improving natural language processing tasks, such as: recognizing textual entailment, information extraction, summarization, automatic reply, and machine translation.
 
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Between Phonology and Phonetics: Polish Voicing (Studies in Generative Grammar)
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Between Phonology and Phonetics: Polish Voicing (Studies in Generative Grammar)Between Phonology and Phonetics: Polish Voicing (Studies in Generative Grammar)

For decades, the voicing system of Polish has been at the center of a heated theoretical debate concerning laryngeal phonology as it features a number of phenomena, such as Final Obstruent Devoicing, Regressive Voice Assimilation, Progressive Voice Assimilation, dialectally distributed external sandhi voicing in pre-sonorant context, and other instances of special behaviour of sonorants, leading to interesting cases of variation.
 
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Introducing Arguments (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, Book 49)
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Introducing Arguments (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, Book 49)Introducing Arguments (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, Book 49)

This concise work offers a compositional theory of verbal argument structure in natural languages that focuses on how arguments that are not "core" arguments of the verb (arguments that are not introduced by verbal roots themselves) are introduced into argument structures. Liina Pylkkänen shows that the type of argument structure variation that allows additional noncore arguments is a pervasive property of human language and that most languages have verbs that exhibit this behavior.
 
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The Locative Syntax of Experiencers (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, Book 53)
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The Locative Syntax of Experiencers (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, Book 53)The Locative Syntax of Experiencers (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, Book 53)

Experiencers--grammatical participants that undergo a certain psychological change or are in such a state--are grammatically special. As objects (John scared Mary; loud music annoys me), experiencers display two peculiar clusters of nonobject properties across different languages: their syntax is often typical of oblique arguments and their semantic scope is typical of subjects. In The Locative Syntax of Experiencers, Idan Landau investigates this puzzling correlation and argues that experiencers are syntactically coded as (mental) locations.
 
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