Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader (2004)

Author(s): Bas Aarts, David Denison, Evelien Keizer, Gergana Popova Series: Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, Year: 2004 ISBN: 019926256X,9780199262564 Description: This work brings together classic and recent papers in the philosophical and linguistic analysis of fuzzy grammar, of gradience in meaning, word classes and syntax....
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Perfect Phrases for Executive Presentations: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases to Use to Communicate Your Strategy and Vision When the Stakes Are High

Author(s): Alan Perlman Series: Perfect Phrases Series Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Year: 2006 ISBN: 9780071467636,0071467637 Description: This book is too basic and repetitive for experienced presenters, but extremely useful for those who are very new to the field, lack confidence, and/or are non-native speakers of English. It presents exact phrases,...
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Instructional Writing in English: Studies in Honour of Risto Hiltunen (2009)

Author(s): Matti Peikola (ed.), Janne Skaffari (ed.), Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (ed.) Series: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 189 Publisher: John Benjamins, Year: 2009 ISBN: 9027254249,9789027254245,9789027290489 Description: The history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English. This volume is the first collection...
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Complexity Scales and Licensing in Phonology (2010)

Author(s): Eugeniusz Cyran Series: Studies in Generative Grammar 105 Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter, Year: 2010 ISBN: 3110221497,9783110221497,9783110221503 Description: The aim of this book is to demonstrate that, in a representation-based model, the phonological organization of speech sounds within a word is reducible to the licensing properties of nuclei...
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Logic as Grammar: An Approach to Meaning in Natural Language (1986)

Author(s): Norbert Hornstein Publisher: The MIT Press, Year: 1986 ISBN: 9780262580823,0262580829 Description: How is the meaning of natural language interpreted? Taking as its point of departure the logical problem of natural language acquisition, this book elaborates a theory of meaning based on syntactical rather than semantical processes. Hornstein...
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