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1 online resource (vii, 526 pages) : illustrations |
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OUP E-Books
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Contents |
Introduction : the nature of grammatical categories and their representation -- Philosophical background. Categories / Aristotle ; Concepts / Gottlob Frege ; Vagueness / Bertrand Russell ; Family resemblances / Ludwig Wittgenstein ; The phenomena of vagueness / Rosanna Keefe -- Categories in cognition. The boundaries of words and their meanings / William Labov ; Principles of categorization / Eleanor Rosch ; Categorization, fuzziness, and family resemblances / Ray Jackendoff ; Discreteness / Ronald W. Langacker ; The importance of categorization / George Lakoff -- Categories in grammar. Parts of speech / Otto Jespersen ; English word classes / David Crystal ; A notional approach to the parts of speech / John Lyons ; Syntactic categories and notional features / John M. Anderson ; Bounded regions / Ronald W. Langacker ; The discourse basis for lexical categories in universal grammar / Paul J. Hopper and Sandra A. Thompson ; Grammatical categories / John Taylor -- Gradience in grammar. Gradience / Dwight Bolinger ; Degrees of grammaticalness / Noam Chomsky ; Descriptive statement and serial relationship / Randolph Quirk ; On the analysis of linguistic vagueness / Jir̆í V. Neustupný ; Nouniness / John Robert Ross ; The coordination-subordination gradient / Randolph Quirk [and others] ; The nature of graded judgments / Carson T. Schütze -- Criticisms and responses. Description of language design / Martin Joos ; 'Prototypes save' / Anna Wierzbicka ; Fuzziness and categorization / Denis Bouchard ; The discrete nature of syntactic categories : against a prototype-based account / Frederick J. Newmeyer |
Summary |
This work brings together classic and recent papers in the philosophical and linguistic analysis of fuzzy grammar, of gradience in meaning, word classes and syntax |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Relational grammar.
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Grammar, Comparative and general.
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Arc pair grammar.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general
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Relational grammar
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Taalfilosofie.
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Vaagheid.
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Grammaticale categorieën.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Aarts, Bas, 1961-
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ISBN |
9781429468657 |
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1429468653 |
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9780191532283 |
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0191532282 |
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1280838302 |
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9781280838309 |
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9780199262564 |
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019926256X |
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9780199262571 |
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0199262578 |
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9786610838301 |
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6610838305 |
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