Further evidence of the decline of English

[Wilson Gray]

Thank you!

-Wilson

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On Apr 25, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>>
>> ... I recall a serial in F&SF called "The
>> Stochastic Man" and I recall "finite state" from Robert Eugene Wall's
>> magnificent work, Introduction to Mathematical Linguistics (now,
>> sadly, out of print, but available used for $198.14), ...
>
> the old Wall book is indeed out of print, as is Barbara Partee's math
> lx book from way back -- but they were hybridized in
>   Partee, ter Meulen, & Wall, Mathematical methods in linguistics
> (Kluwer, 1990)
>
> the paperback is still in print, available from Amazon at about $32.
>
> arnold
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