Background
Palmer, Frank Robert was born on April 9, 1922 in Westleigh, Gloucestershire, England. Son of George Samuel and Gertrude Lilian (Newman) Palmer.
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A detailed account of the many uses and functions of these verbs. The nature of modality, and some controversial issues, are also discussed.
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Frank Palmer's new book is a typological survey of grammatical roles, such as Agent, Patient, and Beneficiary, as well as grammatical relations, such as Subject, (Direct) Object and Indirect Object, which are familiar concepts in traditional grammars. A great wealth of examples is used to show that the grammatical systems of the familiar European languages are far from typical of many of the world's languages. Grammatical Roles and Relations will be welcomed by all those interested in language typology.
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Frank Palmer's new book is a typological survey of grammatical roles, such as Agent, Patient, Beneficiary, and grammatical relations, such as Subject, Direct Object and Indirect Object, which are familiar concepts in traditional grammars. It describes the devices, such as the Passive, that alter or switch the identities between such roles and relations. A great wealth of examples is used to show that the grammatical systems of the familiar European languages are far from typical of many of the world's languages, for which we need to use such terms as 'Ergative' and 'Antipassive'. Professor Palmer provides an elegant and consistent framework within which grammatical roles and relations may be discussed, combining a great clarity of discussion with evidence from an enormous number of the world's languages.
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During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it have come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development of new tools in the field of statistics, and spawned new areas such as data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Many of these tools have common underpinnings but are often expressed with different terminology. This book describes the important ideas in these areas in a common conceptual framework. While the approach is statistical, the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics. Many examples are given, with a liberal use of color graphics. It is a valuable resource for statisticians and anyone interested in data mining in science or industry. The book's coverage is broad, from supervised learning (prediction) to unsupervised learning. The many topics include neural networks, support vector machines, classification trees and boosting---the first comprehensive treatment of this topic in any book. This major new edition features many topics not covered in the original, including graphical models, random forests, ensemble methods, least angle regression & path algorithms for the lasso, non-negative matrix factorization, and spectral clustering. There is also a chapter on methods for ``wide'' data (p bigger than n), including multiple testing and false discovery rates.
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During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it have come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development of new tools in the field of statistics, and spawned new areas such as data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Many of these tools have common underpinnings but are often expressed with different terminology. This book describes the important ideas in these areas in a common conceptual framework. While the approach is statistical, the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics. Many examples are given, with a liberal use of color graphics. It is a valuable resource for statisticians and anyone interested in data mining in science or industry. The book's coverage is broad, from supervised learning (prediction) to unsupervised learning. The many topics include neural networks, support vector machines, classification trees and boosting---the first comprehensive treatment of this topic in any book. This major new edition features many topics not covered in the original, including graphical models, random forests, ensemble methods, least angle regression & path algorithms for the lasso, non-negative matrix factorization, and spectral clustering. There is also a chapter on methods for ``wide'' data (p bigger than n), including multiple testing and false discovery rates.
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During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it have come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development of new tools in the field of statistics, and spawned new areas such as data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Many of these tools have common underpinnings but are often expressed with different terminology. This book describes the important ideas in these areas in a common conceptual framework. While the approach is statistical, the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics. Many examples are given, with a liberal use of color graphics. It is a valuable resource for statisticians and anyone interested in data mining in science or industry. The book's coverage is broad, from supervised learning (prediction) to unsupervised learning. The many topics include neural networks, support vector machines, classification trees and boosting---the first comprehensive treatment of this topic in any book. This major new edition features many topics not covered in the original, including graphical models, random forests, ensemble methods, least angle regression & path algorithms for the lasso, non-negative matrix factorization, and spectral clustering. There is also a chapter on methods for ``wide'' data (p bigger than n), including multiple testing and false discovery rates.
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(Since the publication of F. R. Palmer's Mood and Modality...)
Since the publication of F. R. Palmer's Mood and Modality in 1986, when the topic of "modality" was fairly unfamiliar, there has been considerable interest in the subject as well as in grammatical typology in general. Modality is concerned with mood (subjunctive etc.) and with modal markers such as English modal verbs (can, may, must etc.) and is treated as a single grammatical category found in most of the languages of the world. Palmer investigates this category, drawing on a wealth of examples from a wide variety of languages.
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During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it have come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development of new tools in the field of statistics, and spawned new areas such as data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Many of these tools have common underpinnings but are often expressed with different terminology. This book describes the important ideas in these areas in a common conceptual framework. While the approach is statistical, the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics. Many examples are given, with a liberal use of color graphics. It is a valuable resource for statisticians and anyone interested in data mining in science or industry. The book's coverage is broad, from supervised learning (prediction) to unsupervised learning. The many topics include neural networks, support vector machines, classification trees and boosting---the first comprehensive treatment of this topic in any book. This major new edition features many topics not covered in the original, including graphical models, random forests, ensemble methods, least angle regression & path algorithms for the lasso, non-negative matrix factorization, and spectral clustering. There is also a chapter on methods for ``wide'' data (p bigger than n), including multiple testing and false discovery rates.
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Palmer, Frank Robert was born on April 9, 1922 in Westleigh, Gloucestershire, England. Son of George Samuel and Gertrude Lilian (Newman) Palmer.
Student, University Oxford, England, 1948. Master of Arts, Merton College, Oxford, 1949.
Lecturer in Linguistics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London 1950-1960. Professor, of Linguistics, University College, of North Wales, Bangor 1960-1965. Professor, of Linguistic Science, University of Reading 1965-1987, Dean, Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences 1969-1972.
Chairman Linguistics Association (Great Britain) 68.
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( In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, ...)
( In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, ...)
( In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, ...)
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( In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, ...)
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Author: The Morphology of the Tigre Noun, 1962, A Linguistic Study of the English Verb, 1965, Grammar, 1971, second edition, 1984, The English Verb, 1974, second edition, 1981, Semantics, 1976, second edition, 1981, Modality and the English Modals, 1979, second edition, 1990, Mood and Modality, 1986, second edition, 2001, Grammatical Roles and Relations, 1994. Editor: Selected Papers of J.R. Firth (1951-1958), 1968, Prosodic Analysis, 1970, Studies in the History of Western Linguistics, 1986, Grammar and Meaning, 1995, Modality in Contemporary English, 2003, English Modality in Perspective. Editor Journal Linguistics, 1969-1979.
Served to lieutenant British Army, 1942-1945, Africa. Fellow British Academy (member council 1980-1983). Member Academia Europaea, Philological Society (vice president), Linguistic Society of America (professional 1971), Linguistics Association Great Britain (chairman 1965-1968).
Married Jean Elisabeth Moore, June 18, 1948. Children: Peter Frank, Robert George, Jane Margaret, Andrew Mark, Ruth Elisabeth May.