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Not exactly : in praise of vagueness by Deemter, Kees van

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Keyness in texts

Table of Contents: “…Exploring keyness; Three concepts of keywords; Problems in investigating keyness, or clearing the undergrowth and marking out trails; Closed-class keywords and corpus-driven discourse analysis; Hyperlinks: Keywords or key words?; Web Semantics vs the Semantic Web?; II. Keyness in specialised discourse; Identifying aboutgrams in engineering texts; Keywords and phrases in political speeches; Key words and key phrases in a corpus of travel writing.…”
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Language, gender and sexual identity : poststructuralist perspectives by Motschenbacher, Heiko

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The Structure of Time : Language, meaning and temporal cognition. by Evans, Vyvyan

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Gender, sexuality, and meaning : linguistic practice and politics by McConnell-Ginet, Sally

Table of Contents: “…: Social labeling and gender practices -- 11. Queering semantics: Definitional struggles -- Coda: 12. Breaking through the 'glass ceiling': Can linguistic awareness help?…”
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Under the Tumtum Tree : From nonsense to sense, a study in non-automatic comprehension. by Dolitsky, Marlene

Table of Contents: “…NONSENSE; 1.1. Gobbledegook; 1.2. Semantic contradiction; 1.3. Metalinguistic contradiction; 1.4. …”
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Semantic traces of social interaction from antiquity to early modern times : historical conversatio / by Plotke, Seraina

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Approaching Dialogue : Talk, interaction and contexts in dialogical perspectives. by Linell, Per

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Philosophical essays. / Philosophical significance of language by Soames, Scott

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Philosophical essays. what it means and how we use it / Natural language : by Soames, Scott

Table of Contents: “…Linguistics and psychology -- Semantics and psychology -- Semantics and semantic competence -- The necessity argument -- Truth, meaning, and understanding -- Truth and meaning in perspective -- pt. 3. …”
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Towards a biolinguistic understanding of grammar : essays on Interfaces

Table of Contents: “…Experimental studies; Acknowledgements; References; Part I. Syntax, semantics; Single cycle syntax and a constraint on quantifier lowering; 1. …”
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Metadata and semantics for digital libraries and information centres.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Guest editorial; The IN Harmony project; Enriching e-learning metadata through digital library usage analysis; Social metadata for the impact factor; Metadata for digital collections of e-government resources; Rule-based metadata interoperation in heterogeneous digital libraries; Building interoperable Canadian architecture collections: initial metadata assessment; Faceted classification in web information architecture; Improving the search process through ontology-based adaptive semantic search; Book reviews; call for papers.…”
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Contributions to Functional Syntax, Semantics and Language Comprehension.

Table of Contents: “…CONTRIBUTIONS TO FUNCTIONAL SYNTAX, SEMANTICS, AND LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; INTRODUCTION; Notes; Table of contents; (A) GENERAL THEORETICAL ISSUES; On the Notion "Type of Language"; Notes; Syntax, Meaning, and Reference; Notes; Optional Participants in a Semantic Interpretation (Arity of Predicates and Case Frames of Verbs); Notes; A Dependency Base for a Linguistic Description; Notes; On Presupposition and Allegation; Notes; Remarks on Text, Language and Communication; Notes; Appendix :A Note on Text and Reference.…”
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Multidimensional semantics of evaluative adverbs / by Liu, Mingyan

“…Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ;…”
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Cognitive semantics and the Polish dative / by Dąbrowska, Ewa, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…The concept of personal sphere -- 2.2. The dative and the semantics of the verb -- 2.3. The ethic dative -- 2.4. …”
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Projecting the Adjective : the Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison. by Kennedy, Christopher, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Series Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Gradable Adjectives; 1.1 The Semantic Characteristics of Gradable Adjectives; 1.1.1 Vagueness; 1.1.2 Indeterminacy and the Dimensional Parameter; 1.1.3 Incommensurability; 1.1.4 Polarity; 1.1.5 Summary; 1.2 The Vague Predicate Analysis; 1.2.1 Overview; 1.2.2 Comparatives; 1.2.3 Problems with the Vague Predicate Analysis; 1.2.4 Summary; 1.3 The Scalar Analysis; 1.3.1 Degree Arguments; 1.3.2 Comparatives; 1.3.3 Improving on the Vague Predicate Analysis; 1.3.4 Summary.…”
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The semantics of silence in biblical Hebrew / by Noll, Sonja

Subjects: “…Hebrew language Semantics.…”
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Mexico-United States Relations : the Semantics of Sovereignty. by Santa-Cruz, Arturo

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Lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface / by Meibauer, Jörg

Table of Contents: “…Preface; 1 Perspectives on lying; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Lying in the private sphere, on the Internet, and in politics; 1.2.1 Lying in the private sphere; 1.2.2 Lying on the Internet; 1.2.3 Lying in politics; 1.3 Ethical versus linguistic perspectives; 1.4 The acquisition of lying; 1.5 Psychological and neurological findings; 1.6 Universality of lying; 1.7 Lying and deceiving; 2 Approaching a linguistic concept of lying; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The semantics-pragmatics distinction; 2.3 Lexical semantics: The meaning of to lie; 2.4 Interface approach: Lying and sentence types.…”
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Knowledge Architectures Structures and Semantics. by Bedford, Denise

Table of Contents: “…9 Functional architectures for knowledge asset disposition and destruction -- 10 Functional architecture designs for knowledge preservation and conservation -- Section 3 Designing for accessibility -- 11 Functional architectures for knowledge seeking and discovery -- 12 Functional architecture for knowledge search -- 13 Functional architecture for knowledge categorization -- 14 Functional architectures for indexing and keywording -- 15 Functional architecture for knowledge semantics -- 16 Functional architecture for knowledge abstraction and surrogation…”
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The emergence of semantics in four linguistic traditions : Hebrew, Sanskrit, Greek, Arabic /

Table of Contents: “…THE EMERGENCE OF SEMANTICS IN FOUR LINGUISTIC TRADITIONS; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; PREFACE; Contents; Part One THE HEBREW TRADITION; Part Two THE SANSKRIT TRADITION; Part Three THE GREEK TRADITION; Part Four THE ARABIC TRADITION; Meaning in four linguistic traditions: a comparison; Chronological table; Index of Names; Index of Subjects; The series Studies in the History of the Language Sciences.…”
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Benchmarking Semantic Web Technology. by García-Castro, R.

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Context; The Semantic Web; Brief introduction to Semantic Web technologies; Semantic Web technology evaluation; The need for benchmarking in the Semantic Web; Semantic Web technology interoperability; Heterogeneity in ontology representation; The interoperability problem; Categorising ontology differences; Thesis contributions; Thesis structure; State of the Art; Software evaluation; Benchmarking; Benchmarking vs evaluation; Benchmarking classifications; Evaluation and improvement methodologies; Benchmarking methodologies…”
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Concepts and semantics of programming languages. a semantical approach with OCaml and Python / by Hardin, Therese

Table of Contents: “…From Hardware to Software -- Introduction to Semantics of Programming Languages -- Semantics of Functional Features -- Semantics of Imperative Features -- Types -- Data Types -- Pointers and Memory Management -- Exceptions -- Conclusion -- Solutions to the Exercises -- List of Notations -- Index of Programs.…”
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The syntax and semantics of discourse markers / by Urgelles-Coll, Miriam

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Context-sensitivity and semantic minimalism : new essays on semantics and pragmatics /

Table of Contents: “…Taylor -- Radical minimalism, moderate contextualism / Kepa Korta and John Perry -- How and why to be a moderate contextualist / Ishani Maitra -- Moderately sensitive semantics / Sarah-Jane Leslie -- Sense and insensibility or where minimalism meets contextualism / Eros Corazza and Jérôme Dokic -- Prudent semantics meets wanton speech act pluralism / Elisabeth Camp -- Meanings, propositions, context, and semantical underdeterminacy / Jay David Atlas -- Semantic minimalism and nonindexical contextualism / John MacFarlane -- Minimal (disagreement about) semantics / Lenny Clapp -- Minimal propositions, cognitive safety mechanisms, and psychological reality / Reinaldo Elugardo -- Minimalism and modularity / Philip Robbins -- Minimalism, psychological reality, meaning, and use / Henry Jackman -- Minimalism versus contextualism in semantics / Emma Borg.…”
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Semantic fields in sign languages : colour, kinship and quantification /

Table of Contents: “…Semantic fields in sign languages: a comparative typological study / Keiko Sagara and Ulrike Zeshan -- Colour terms, kinship terms and numerals in Estonian Sign Language / Liivi Hollman -- Colours and numerals in Spanish Sign Language (LSE) / Inmaculada C. …”
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Lexical semantics and diachronic morphology : the development of -hood, -dom and -ship in the history of English / by Trips, Carola

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The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty : a Corpus-Based Study of English Adverbs. by Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie

Table of Contents: “…Semantic-pragmatic relations: Parameters and features; Chapter 12. …”
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Case, animacy and semantic roles /

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Semantic roles and animacy -- pt. 2. Semantic roles and cases vs. adpositions -- pt. 3. …”
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The semantics of free indirect discourse : how texts allow us to mind-read and eavesdrop / by Eckardt, Regine

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Semantic issues in Romance syntax /

Table of Contents: “…SEMANTIC ISSUES IN ROMANCE SYNTAX; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; INFINITIVES VS. …”
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A geography of case semantics : the Czech dative and the Russian instrumental / by Janda, Laura A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 1. What Cognitive Semantics Is -- 1.1 Support For Cognitive Semantics From Other Disciplines -- 1.2. …”
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The syntax and semantics of pseudo-incorporation /

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to the syntax and semantics of pseudo-incorporation / Olga Borik and Berit Gehrke -- Part I: General questions: delimiting the phenomenon; pseudo-incorporation and bare nominals -- Incorporation: morpho-syntactic vs. semantic considerations / Veneeta Dayal -- Weak reference and property denotation. …”
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The Handbook of Contemporary semantic theory /

Table of Contents: “…Semantics of Questions / Andrzej Wiśniewski -- The Semantics of Imperatives / Chris Fox -- Type Theory and Computational Semantics. …”
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Wittgenstein and early analytic semantics : toward a phenomenology of truth / by Connelly, James

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Semantic Web for the working ontologist : effective modeling in RDFS and OWL / by Allemang, Dean

Table of Contents: “…What is the Semantic Web? -- Semantic modeling -- RDFS -- the basis of the Semantic Web -- Semantic Web application architecture -- Querying the Semantic Web -- SPARQL -- RDF and inferencing -- RDF schema -- RDFS-Plus -- Using RDFS-Plus in the wild -- SKOS -- managing vocabularies with RDFS-Plus -- Basic OWL -- Counting and sets in OWL -- Ontologies on the Web -- putting it all together -- Good and bad modeling practices -- Expert modeling in OWL -- Conclusions.…”
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Crosslinguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics : Negation, Tense, and Clausal Architecture. by Zanuttini, Raffaella

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Cognitive modeling and verbal semantics : a representational framework based on UML / by Schalley, Andrea C., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Semantic primitives and the Natural Semantic Metalanguage -- 3. …”
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A semantic Web primer / by Antoniou, G. (Grigoris)

Table of Contents: “…Brief Contents -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- 1 The Semantic Web Vision -- 2 Structured Web Documents: XML -- 3 Describing Web Resources: RDF -- 4 Web Ontology Language: OWL -- 5 Logic and Inference: Rules -- 6 Applications -- 7 Ontology Engineering -- 8 Conclusion and Outlook -- A Abstract OWL Syntax -- Index…”
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Data management in the semantic web /

Table of Contents: “…DATA MANAGEMENT IN THE SEMANTIC WEB ; DATA MANAGEMENT IN THE SEMANTIC WEB ; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; INTERPRETATIONS OF THE WEB OF DATA; Abstract; 1. …”
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