The book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). It provides a critical and practical guide to computational techniques for handling morphological and syntactic phenomena, showing how these techniques have been used and modified in practice.
The book covers the major issues in the generative analysis of vowel harmony and vowel harmony typology. It offers an economical account of the most prominent features of vowel harmony systems within the framework of optimality theory, extending the notion of correspondence to the syntagmatic dimension. The book contains a typological overview of vowel harmony patterns, an introduction to the basics of optimality theory including some of its most recent extensions and detailed studies of harmony systems in 10 languages from a variety of language families.
This engaging collection of National Public Radio broadcasts and magazine pieces by one of America"s best-known linguists covers the waterfront of contemporary culture by taking stock of its words and phrases.
This first of its kind descriptive dictionary, a serious work of lexicography which will have wide popular appeal, deals as comprehensively as possible with the terms of address--names, words, terms of endearment and epithets--used in English around the world.
The lexicon is becoming an increasingly popular area of investigation within linguistics and language studies. Language is popularly conceived of in terms of words, and words are also integral to the way in which linguists have traditionally approached language as an object of study. This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive yet accessible overview of lexicology and will prove invaluable to the growing number of students of lexicology who need an interdisciplinary approach to the study of language.
