Fuzzy grammar : a reader / edited by Bas Aarts ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aarts, Bas, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relational grammar.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

vii, 526 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

This book brings together classic and recent papers in the philosophical and linguistic analysis of fuzzy grammar, of gradience in meaning, word classes, and syntax. Issues such as how many grains make a heap, when a puddle becomes a pond, and so forth, have occupied thinkers since Aristotle and over the last two decades been the subject of increasing interest among linguists as well as in fields such as artificial intelligence and computational linguistics.

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 ... [et al.] ; 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

019926256X

0199262578

OCLC:

53156091