Tag: Linguistic

Free Download Emily M. Bender, Alex Lascarides, Graeme Hirst, "Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing: 100 Essentials from Semantics and Pragmatics"
English | 2019 | pages: 270 | ISBN: 1681736217, 3031010442 | PDF | 1,5 mb
Meaning is a fundamental concept in Natural Language Processing (NLP), in the tasks of both Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG).

Free Download Roberto Petrosino, "The Linguistic Sophistication of Morphological Decomposition: More than Islands of Regularity"
English | ISBN: 1527586146 | 2024 | 206 pages | PDF | 8 MB
A wealth of psycholinguistic evidence has shown that words, before being visually recognized, decompose into smaller orthographic units which may seem to correspond to, but aren’t necessarily, morphemes. Such a procedure of morphological decomposition is commonly assumed to solely rely on islands of regularity – namely, statistical orthographic regularities, with no regard to the words’ meaning. Building on these results, the present investigation assesses the sensitivity of decomposition to non-semantic (i.e., phonological, lexical, and morpho-syntactic) properties, as a way to probe the time-course of visual word processing. In showing that decomposition may also be affected by whole-word lexicality and whole-word frequency, this book proposes a novel model of lexical access, in which decomposition encompasses a multi-step mechanism that first generates multiple possible morpho-orthographic decomposition patterns of the visual stimulus, and then evaluates them in parallel in order to choose the optimal candidate for activation.

Free Download Laura Massetti, "Pindar’s Pythian Twelve: A Linguistic Commentary and a Comparative Study "
English | ISBN: 9004688072 | 2024 | 280 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book examines the language and myth of Pindar’s Pythian Twelve under the lens of historical linguistics and comparative philology.

Free Download Ariel Loring, "Language, Immigration and Naturalization: Legal and Linguistic Issues"
English | ISBN: 1783095156 | 2016 | 232 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This volume focuses on the everyday legalities and practicalities of naturalization including governmental processes, the language of citizenship tests and classes, the labelling and lived experiences of immigrants/outsiders and the media’s interpretation of this process. The book brings together scholars from a wide range of specialities who accentuate language and raise issues that often remain unarticulated or masked in the media. The contributors highlight how governmental policies and practices affect native-born citizens and residents differently on the basis of legal status. Furthermore, the authors observe that many issues that are typically seen as affecting immigrants (such as language policies, nationalist identities and feelings of belonging) also impact first-generation native-born citizens who are seen as, or see themselves as, outsiders.

Free Download Alan E. Kurschner, "A Linguistic Approach to Revelation 19:11-20:6 and the Millennium Binding of Satan "
English | ISBN: 9004520015 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 21 MB
This study argues that the establishment of the millennium binding of Satan and the vindication of the saints in Revelation 20:1-6 are cohesively linked with Jesus’s victorious battle in Revelation 19:11-21. The major implication of this analysis views both these events as consequent effects of Christ’s victory at the eschatological battle. Applying systemic functional linguistics and discourse analysis of cohesion, this study advances critical scholarship on the Book of Revelation by offering the first fully sustained answer to this frequently debated question regarding Satan’s binding from a modern linguistic approach.

Free Download Zygmunt Frajzyngier, David S. Rood, "Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories"
English | 2005 | pages: 445 | ISBN: 902723082X, 1588115771 | PDF | 2,1 mb
From the refinement of general methodology, to new insights of synchronic and diachronic universals, to studies of specific phenomena, this collection demonstrates the crucial role that language data play in the evolution of useful, accurate linguistic theories. Issues addressed include the determination of meaning in typological studies; a refined understanding of diachronic processes by including intentional, social, statistical, and level-determined phenomena; the reconsideration of categories such as sentence, evidential or adposition, and structures such as compounds or polysynthesis; the tension between formal simplicity and functional clarity; the inclusion of unusual systems in theoretical debates; and fresh approaches to Chinese classifiers, possession in Oceanic languages, and English aspect. This is a careful selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories in Boulder, Colorado. The purpose of the Symposium was to confront fundamental issues in language structure and change with the rich variation of forms and functions observed across languages.

Free Download Learning Chinese Linguistic, Sociocultural, and Narrative Perspectives TAL 5 By Timothy Anderson, Roma Ilnyckyj, Ella Lester, Rachel Wang, Elliott Yates, Patricia Duff
2013 | 294 Pages | ISBN: 193407876X | PDF | 5 MB
The volume is an innovative examination of the acquisition of Mandarin Chinese, one of the most important and widely spoken languages in the world today. It describes the rise of Chinese as a global language and the many challenges and opportunities associated with learning it. The collaborative, multiple-case study and cross-case analysis is presented from three distinct but complementary theoretical and analytic perspectives: linguistic, sociocultural, and narrative. The book reveals fascinating dimensions of Chinese language learning based on vivid first-person accounts (with autobiographical narratives included in the book) of adults negotiating not only their own and others’ language and literacy learning, but also their identities, communities, and trajectories as users of Chinese.

Free Download Language Ideologies and Linguistic Identity in Heritage Language Learning
by Rachel Showstack, Diego Pascual y Cabo
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0815364776 | 171 Pages | True PDF | 7.4 MB

Free Download Marlis Hellinger, Hadumod Bußmann, "Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men. Volume 1"
English | 2001 | pages: 344 | ISBN: 1588110826, 9027218404, 9027218412 | PDF | 2,0 mb
This is the first of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on "Gender across Languages", which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds.

Free Download From Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East By Hannah M. Cotton, Robert G. Hoyland, Jonathan J. Price, David J. Wasserstein
2009 | 514 Pages | ISBN: 0521875811 | PDF | 6 MB
The eight hundred years between the first Roman conquests and the conquest of Islam saw a rich, constantly shifting blend of languages and writing systems, legal structures, religious practices and beliefs in the Near East. While the different ethnic groups and cultural forms often clashed with each other, adaptation was as much a characteristic of the region as conflict. This 2009 volume, emphasizing the inscriptions in many languages from the Near East, brings together mutually informative studies by scholars in diverse fields. Together, they reveal how the different languages, peoples and cultures interacted, competed with, tried to ignore or were influenced by each other, and how their relationships evolved over time. It will be of great value to those interested in Greek and Roman history, Jewish history and Near Eastern studies.