This book provides a structured and accessible introduction to the theory, design, and real-world use of large language models (LLMs). As generative AI systems become embedded across industries, this book offers readers a balanced perspective that combines technical foundations with practical guidance and critical reflection.

This volume explores the later life and thought of Charles S. Peirce, a fifteen-year period that spans from 1900 until his death in 1914. It is the first volume devoted to this period of Peirce’s philosophical work.

Useful for language learning, this title gives clear explanations of almost all the key points of Latin grammar. It also includes additional features, such as a glossary of grammatical terms, a vocabulary list covering all the Latin words found in the main text, study tips, and notes on Roman dates, money, weights and measures, and names.

This book applies an SFL-inspired, multi-dimensional approach to Latin linguistics, offering fresh insights into Latin narrative tenses while addressing challenges posed by its closed-corpus nature.

Using an introduction to mythology by the master storyteller Ovid himself, the authors have prepared a unique teaching tool designed to achieve proficiency at Latin in one year at the college level, two years at the high school or intermediate level.

This volume offers a detailed anatomy of the spread of Latin and local and regional language change across Britain, Gaul, the Germanies, and the Iberian Peninsula during the late Roman republic to the end of the third century.

Bridging cognitive linguistics and legal theory, this book argues that categorisation is a crucial cognitive operation for the application of law and that theories of categorisation are relevant to legal theory. It focuses on problems of semantic analysis in law, both in particular court cases and in methods of statutory interpretation.