This Element provides a systematic introduction to the multifaceted world of nonmonotonic logics. It explains three central methodologies: formal argumentation, consistent accumulation, and semantic methods. It also reveals connections between the three paradigms by demonstrating translations among them.

This Element provides a systematic introduction to the multifaceted world of nonmonotonic logics. It explains three central methodologies: formal argumentation, consistent accumulation, and semantic methods. It also reveals connections between the three paradigms by demonstrating translations among them.

A comprehensive and up-to-date sociodialectological study of North East Vernacular English

As the first volume of a two-volume set that reexamines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book proposes the verbs-as-nouns theory, corroborated by discussions of the nature and relationship between nouns and verbs in Chinese.

As the second volume of a two-volume set that re-examines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book investigates a wide range of linguistic phenomena in Chinese and other languages to substantiate the verbs-as-nouns theory proposed by the author.

The volume reflects on the ways in which scholarly output is intricately linked with scholarly identity and the challenges LGBTQ+ scholars face when their scholarly and gender and sexual identities can often seem to be in conflict.

This novel, edited volume looks at a previously under-researched area of language teacher agency and identity by exploring the experience of novice pre- and in-service teachers for whom English is a second language