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Neural Network Model of Lexical Organisation
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 150.00This is an engaging study of the mental lexicon - the way in which the form and meaning of words is stored by speakers of specific languages. Fortescue attempts to narrow the gap between the results of experimental neurology and the concerns of theoretical linguistics in the area of lexical semantics. The prime goal as regards linguistic theory is... more...
Pattern and Process
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001; US$ 173.00The purpose of this book is to illustrate the relevance to linguistics today of Whitehead’s philosophy of organism. Although largely ignored by linguists, Whitehead has in fact much to say as regards the cognitive processes underpinning language pattern. His theory of symbolism conceives of language as the ‘systematization of expression’,... more...
A Discourse Production Model for 'Twenty Questions'
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1980; US$ 102.00This essay is an attempt to build up a plausible model of the cognitive processes behind the behavior exhibited by speaker-hearers in a specific discourse situation. more...
Layered Structure and Reference in a Functional Perspective
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1992; US$ 195.00This volume contains revised and expanded versions of those papers from the 1990 Functional Grammar Conference in Copenhagen that contributed specifically to the current investigation of clause structure in terms of semantic layers. One of the key concepts in this discussion is reference'. Some papers discuss ways in which previous accounts of reference... more...
Historical Linguistics 2003
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 180.00This volume consists of 19 papers presented at the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which was held in August 2003 in Copenhagen and drew the largest number of participants and the widest array of languages that this important biannual conference has ever had. As with previous volumes, the papers selected cover a wide range... more...
Content, Expression and Structure
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1996; US$ 203.00This collection of papers offers an alternative to mainstream functional linguistics on two points. Especially in American linguistics, function and structure are often viewed almost as polar opposites; in addition, structure is often understood as being only a matter of linguistic form — or expression — as opposed to content. The book... more...
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