An elementary introduction to formal logic, particularly intended for linguists and others interested in languages. Concepts and theories developed within formal logic for the study of artificial languages have for some time been fruitfully applied to the study of natural languages and some knowledge of them is necessary for students of linguists (especially semantics). With th...(展开全部)

An elementary introduction to formal logic, particularly intended for linguists and others interested in languages. Concepts and theories developed within formal logic for the study of artificial languages have for some time been fruitfully applied to the study of natural languages and some knowledge of them is necessary for students of linguists (especially semantics). With th...(展开全部)

Elementary set theory accustoms the students to mathematical abstraction, includes the standard constructions of relations, functions, and orderings, and leads to a discussion of the various orders of infinity. The material on logic covers not only the standard statement logic and first-order predicate logic but includes an introduction to formal systems, axiomatization, and mo...(展开全部)

芭芭拉·帕赫蒂，著名晤言学家，美国马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校语言学及哲学系荣体教授。曾任美国语言学会会长。主要著作除本书外。还有《形式语卫学中的组台性：帕赫蒂文选》、《蒙太古语法》《蒙太古语法和转换语法》等近二十部。爱丽丝·特缪伦著名数理语占学家，曾任职德国普朗克研究所。并先后任救于荷兰格罗宁根大学，美国华盛顿大学，印第安那大学。目前是瑞士日内瓦大学教授。出版或编辑过九部专著和文集，其中除本书外．她与边沁合编的《逻辑和语言手册》一书在国际语言学界享有盛誉。罗伯特沃尔，著名计算语言学家、数理语言学家。

Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de linguistique generale was posthumously composed by his students from the notes they had made at his lectures. The book became one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, giving direction to modern linguistics and inspiration to literary and cultural theory. Before he died Saussure told friends he was writing up the lectures himse...(展开全部)

Quantitative Methods in Linguistics offers a practical introduction to statistics and quantitative analysis with data sets drawn from the field and coverage of phonetics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and syntax, as well as probability distribution and quantitative methods. Provides balanced treatment of the practical aspects of handling quantit...(展开全部)

This book lays the foundation for modern studies in historical and descriptive linguistics.

查尔斯·弗朗西斯·霍凯特（Charles Francis Hockett,1916--2000），美国语言学家。1916年1月17日出生于美国俄亥俄州哥伦布市。1932年进入俄亥俄州立大学，硕士毕业后进入耶鲁大学攻读博士学位，在萨丕尔等著名学者的指导下进修人类学和语言学，同时经常到哥伦比亚大学参加鲍厄斯主持的美洲印第安语讨论会，1939年获人类学博士学位。1940-1942年期间，他继续从事学术研究，进行语言调查，并执教于密歇根大学，帮助弗里斯做研究工作。1942年应征入伍，在军队里做语言工作，编写供军队使用的汉语教材和词典。从1946年起，霍凯特一直在康奈尔大学教语言学和人类学，并曾主持基础汉语教学，为美国培养了一代语言学家和人类学家。1964年他曾担任美国语言学会会长。1973年被选入美国文理科学院，1974年又被选入国家科学院。1986年他曾来...(展开全部)

One of the outstanding thinkers of our time offers in this book his final words to posterity. Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy was well underway at the time of Leo Strauss's death in 1973. Having chosen the title for the book, he selected the most important writings of his later years and arranged them to clarify the issues in political philosophy that occupied his atte...(展开全部)