Biographical note: Xuping Li, Center for the Study of Language and Cognition, Zhejiang University, China. This book studies the syntax and semantics of numeral classifiers in Mandarin and other Chinese languages. It explores how Chinese classifiers are semantically interpreted …
This book studies the syntax and semantics of numeral classifiers in Mandarin and other Chinese languages. It explores how Chinese classifiers are semantically interpreted in syntactic contexts and how semantic functions of classifiers are realized at the syntactic level. The bo…
The concept of large margins is a unifying principle for the analysis of many different approaches to the classification of data from examples, including boosting, mathematical programming, neural networks, and support vector machines. The fact that it is the margin, or confiden…
"This is the first book devoted to the phoronym, a largely overlooked grammatical category that includes measures such as "head" in "ten head of cattle," and other types, all of which occur in the pseudopartitive construction. Both measures and noun classification (the defining …
