Gradience in grammar : generative perspectives / edited by Gisbert Fanselow ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fanselow, Gisbert.

Series:

Oxford linguistics.

Oxford linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Generative grammar.

Gradience (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

x, 405 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

This book represents the state of the art in the study of gradience in grammar: the degree to which utterances are acceptable or grammatical, and the relationship between acceptability and grammaticality. Part I seeks to clarify the nature of gradience from the perspectives of phonology, generative syntax, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. Parts II and III examine issues in phonology and syntax. Part IV considers long movement from different methodologicalperspectives. The data discussed comes from a wide range of languages and dialects, and includes tone and stress patterns, word order variation, and question formation. The book will interest linguists concerned with the understanding of syntax, phonology, language variation and acquisition, discourse,and the operations of language within the mind.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Notes on Contributors

1 Gradience in Grammar

Part I: The Nature of Gradience

2 Is there Gradient Phonology?

3 Gradedness: Interpretive Dependencies and Beyond

4 Linguistic and Metalinguistic Tasks in Phonology: Methods and Findings

5 Intermediate Syntactic Variants in a Dialect-Standard Speech Repertoire and Relative Acceptability

6 Gradedness and Optionality in Mature and Developing Grammars

7 Decomposing Gradience: Quantitative versus Qualitative Distinctions

Part II: Gradience in Phonology

8 Gradient Perception of Intonation

9 Prototypicality Judgements as Inverted Perception

10 Modelling Productivity with the Gradual Learning Algorithm: The Problem of Accidentally Exceptionless Generalizations

Part III: Gradience in Syntax

11 Gradedness as Relative Efficiency in the Processing of Syntax and Semantics

12 Probabilistic Grammars as Models of Gradience in Language Processing

13 Degraded Acceptability and Markedness in Syntax, and the Stochastic Interpretation of Optimality Theory

14 Linear Optimality Theory as a Model of Gradience in Grammar

Part IV: Gradience in Wh-Movement Constructions

15 Effects of Processing Difficulty on Judgements of Acceptability

16 What's What?

17 Prosodic Influence on Syntactic Judgements

References

Index of Languages

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

W

Index of Subjects

U

V

Index of Names

Y

Z.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-393) and indexes.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0191515280

9780191515286

OCLC:

437093638